How to remove gnome documents?
Steve Ovens
steve_ovens at linux.com
Wed Jun 11 16:08:10 UTC 2014
Hi Dave,
As I understand it, the meta package can actually cause problems if doing a
do-release-upgrade. (This understanding may be flawed). At any rate, I did
try and remove gnome-documents, and with it removed the search results
don't show any documents (they still show folders, contacts etc)
Regards
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Dave Steinberg <dmsteinberg at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> What's the concern with removing gnome-desktop? My understanding of meta
> packages is that they're basically just a simple installation mechanism.
> It's leveraging the dependency mechanism to define a default set of Gnome
> desktop applications.
>
> I don't think there's any harm in removing the gnome-desktop if you want
> to remove gnome-documents. If there were any real dependencies on
> gnome-documents, those would be captured by other packages.
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2014 9:18 AM, "Steve Ovens" <steve_ovens at linux.com> wrote:
>
>> I am going to bump this back up. This is kind of an important thing to
>> me. Its functionality that works in Arch but not Ubuntu Gnome. If I enable
>> gnome-documents, the recently used documents show up in the activities menu
>> but I cant do anything with gnome documents (what an irritating program).
>> When I have just nautilus, there are no search results displayed.
>>
>> Should I be filing a bug for this? As a matter of troubleshooting I have
>> tried changing out the extension that does the searching. I get the same
>> results either way.
>>
>> Please advise
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Steve Ovens <steve_ovens at linux.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have set
>>> Disabled ['gnome-documents.desktop']
>>>
>>> Which indeed prevents gnome-documents from displaying in the activities
>>> interface. However, the Nautlius Recent Items do not show up there. I
>>> logged out and back in, I have rebooted, I have reinstalled the Search
>>> Recently Used Files extension and I have tried changing the search order
>>> to: ['nautilus.desktop', 'gnome-contacts.desktop',
>>> 'gnome-documents.desktop']. I can see that I have items when I open "Files"
>>> in my "Recent" Places.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any further pointers?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Steve Ovens <steve_ovens at linux.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/05/14 08:11, Steve Ovens wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm <mailto:
>>>>> darkxst at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On 01/05/14 22:29, Steve Ovens wrote:
>>>>> > > Hi All,
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > > I have spent some time looking into this but I can't find
>>>>> anything definitive. I want to use the recently used files functionality,
>>>>> > however it
>>>>> > > always wants to open *everything* in gnome documents. This is
>>>>> a problem because a lot of the files have passwords and moreover, I actually
>>>>> > > want to *gasp* edit my files. In Arch I simply removed
>>>>> gnome-documents (or didnt install it in the first place). However in Ubuntu
>>>>> > Gnome, the
>>>>> > > ubuntu-gnome-desktop gets removed when you remove gnome
>>>>> documents.
>>>>> > Are you talking about the search results in the overview or
>>>>> something else?
>>>>> > gnome-documents search provider will open files with
>>>>> gnome-documents.
>>>>> > nautilus search provider seems to open files with the last used
>>>>> editor.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > So I am specifically talking about the ability to, from the
>>>>> shell/activities menu, type into the bar and pull up your recently
>>>>> used/accessed
>>>>> > files. Right now I believe I am doing this via a plugin. I like the
>>>>> ability to not have to open nautilus/take your hands off the keyboard to
>>>>> > open documents
>>>>> right these are the search providers and there are 2 that might
>>>>> provide file results (nautilus and gnome-documents). Look carefully at the
>>>>> icon
>>>>> in the Left hand column for the results you are clicking!
>>>>>
>>>>> You can disable the gnome-documents search-provider in
>>>>> gnome-control-center 3.10+ search panel , or using dconf-editor to set:
>>>>> org.gnome.desktop.search-providers disabled ['gnome-documents.desktop']
>>>>>
>>>>> That way you will only get results from nautilus recently used
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I had to use the dconf-editor method because I did not see
>>>> anything in the GCC which had options I was looking for.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I am open to learning a new way of doing this
>>>>> >
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > > Is there a way to actually disable, or otherwise tell gnome
>>>>> documents I dont want to use it? Can I remove this file some how without
>>>>> > removing
>>>>> > > the gnome-desktop meta package? Why are these considered
>>>>> dependencies?
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > gnome-documents used to be a hard dependency since it provides
>>>>> libgd which some other things used. I think these days libgd is mainly used
>>>>> > as a
>>>>> > git submodule and staticcally linked into programs that require
>>>>> it.
>>>>> > > Looking forward to your replies
>>>>> > >
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