Bug#1099579: gnome-shell: re-evaluate initial apps to show in the Dash for trixie

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2025 at 12:19:07 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>Currently in Debian we have:
>
>> favorite-apps=[
>> 'firefox-esr.desktop',
>> 'org.gnome.Evolution.desktop',
>> 'rhythmbox.desktop',
>> 'libreoffice-writer.desktop',
>> 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop',
>> 'org.gnome.Software.desktop',
>> 'yelp.desktop'
>> ]
>— debian/gnome-shell.gsettings-override
>
>overriding upstream's:
>
>> org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop
>> org.gnome.Calendar.desktop
>> gnome.Nautilus.desktop
>> org.gnome.Software.desktop
>> org.gnome.TextEditor.desktop
>> org.gnome.Calculator.desktop
>— data/default-apps/dash.txt

As a data point, Fedora replaces Epiphany with Firefox, but otherwise
keeps the upstream list as-is.

Ubuntu has a higher-precedence override in the ubuntu-settings package,
which is more similar to Debian's than to upstream's, although with some
substitutions (Flatpak Snap rather than .deb, different desktop ID for
Rhythmbox, Snap Store rather than upstream gnome-software).

     smcv