How to remove gnome documents?
Steve Ovens
steve_ovens at linux.com
Fri Jun 13 12:09:52 UTC 2014
dist-upgrading from the staging ppa worked perfectly. Thanks!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> On 12/06/14 00:46, Dave Steinberg 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.
> >
> Its probably fairly safe to remove from stable release (ie. 14.04) I
> wouldnt recommend removing it if running the dev release however, since you
> will miss any seed changes. Also not having any meta package installed
> (ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, etc) when upgrading to a new
> release could very well cause issues.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> This is true in theory, however in practice there could be missing
> dependencies in some packages that are masked by the meta package.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Jun 11, 2014 9:18 AM, "Steve Ovens" <steve_ovens at linux.com <mailto:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:steve_ovens at linux.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm
> <mailto: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> <mailto:
> 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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