Bug 164305 - Provide a more recognizeable process name and icon than "soffice.bin" to the operating system
Summary: Provide a more recognizeable process name and icon than "soffice.bin" to the ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2024-12-12 18:38 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2024-12-16 10:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Screenshot: how LibreOffice shows up in the system monitor's processes list on Linux (54.58 KB, image/png)
2024-12-12 18:38 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
Details
Screenshot - among other applications (199.58 KB, image/png)
2024-12-15 13:43 UTC, Jeff Fortin Tam
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2024-12-12 18:38:30 UTC
Created attachment 198092 [details]
Screenshot: how LibreOffice shows up in the system monitor's processes list on Linux

1. Open any LibreOffice application
2. Open gnome-system-monitor and try to find it in the Processes list

Actual Result:

It is only listed as "soffice.bin" (and "oosplash", even though the app has been launched and presumably doesn't need a splashcreen process to remain?), with no app icon. Additionally, if you are running the flatpak version, you will see the accompanying "bwrap" processes.

Expected result:

- Ideally, a per-app process name and icon (ex: LibreOffice-Calc with its icon)
- Otherwise, a global suite process name (ex: libreoffice, with the general icon)

Most other apps manage to do this, so presumably LibreOffice can, too.

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Tested with:

Version: 24.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 48a6bac9e7e268aeb4c3483fcf825c94556d9f92
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.11; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2024-12-12 21:03:52 UTC
No imperative to do this, and as LibreOffice is a monolithic app each of the "modules" run as some instance of soffice.bin. Nothing to be gained by wrapping that into some other string.

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Comment 2 Roman Kuznetsov 2024-12-14 19:00:54 UTC
Please share a screenshot with other user space software in gnome-system-monitor, like Firefox, text editor, PDF viewer, etc.
Comment 3 Jeff Fortin Tam 2024-12-15 13:43:47 UTC
Created attachment 198118 [details]
Screenshot - among other applications

Thank you for your willingness to entertain the idea.

As requested, here is a screenshot showing other applications identifying themselves nicely, and setting their icon. Note that among those, only 3 of thome are flatpaks, the rest are system-installed native packages. As you can see, it's not a flatpak-specific thing, and it's been possible since time immemorial.
Comment 4 Roman Kuznetsov 2024-12-16 07:42:21 UTC
We can't change the process name but about icon for it we can think I hope
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2024-12-16 10:34:03 UTC
Kind of similar question in bug 164311. And aren't there worse applications listed among the processes?