cinnamon: Added item for unknown purposes

[vegam57]

Cinnamon 5.0.3 What is this?

[clefebvre]

clem@airtop ~ $ apt contains texdoctk
texlive-base: /etc/texmf/texdoctk
texlive-base: /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults
ubuntu-settings: /usr/share/ubuntu/applications/texdoctk.desktop
ubuntu-settings: /usr/share/ubuntu-wayland/applications/texdoctk.desktop
clem@airtop ~ $ more /usr/share/ubuntu/applications/texdoctk.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeXdoctk
Exec=texdoctk
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Settings;
NoDisplay=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=ubuntu-default-launchers

It comes from ubuntu-settings but it's a NoDisplay=true so I'm not sure why it appears in your menu. Type the following to make sure you didn't override it:

search in ~/.local/share/applications/ for textdoc

[vegam57]

In my environment I haven't touched it.

[vegam57]

I look at the place on Nemo Empty

[mtwebster]

For me the installed desktop file doesn't have NoDisplay: /usr/share/applications/texdoctk.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeXdoctk
Exec=texdoctk
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Settings;

Btw, you can click the 'Edit desktop file' button in the menu editor to view the actual file being used.

This is installed by texlive-base:

mtwebster@p51laptop:~> dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/texdoctk.desktop 
texlive-base: /usr/share/applications/texdoctk.desktop

[mtwebster]

Unfortunately this gets installed due to nemo depending on texlive-binaries as of 5.0.2, used for formatting latex documents for content search. These are text documents so they could be read by the basic text search but this eliminates any noise from the markup language.

[vegam57]

In my environment /usr/share/applications/texdoctk.desktop is same.

[Desktop Entry] Name=TeXdoctk Exec=texdoctk Type=Application Terminal=false Categories=Settings;

I understand the purpose of adding the item. If possible, I think it is a good idea to hide it from the menu. I pray that it is only my environment. To prevent misunderstandings with adware.

[Harry-W-Haines-III]

It also added 120 MB in fonts I didn't ask for or will ever use in any other application like a word processor or spreadsheet. So now I have to take measures to mitigate this. Sometimes less is more. Just offering the search functionality of GREP would have been enough.

[mtwebster]

Just offering the search functionality of GREP would have been enough.

Sorry, I disagree. Latex files are full of markup that would end up as false positives.

Replaced detex with untex, it's only 30kb installed with no additional dependencies.