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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