actually I didn’t mention it only because I wasn’t sure it had the same indicators.

Dash-to-Dock is probably the best solution for this

right, thank you for pointing it out.

if only there was a good, actively developed and highly regarded free and open source alternative whose name would be something like “LibreOffice”…

the fact that they are chinese isn’t relevant here, since such fraudulent practices have been seen on Brave Browser too, for example.