How to remove gnome documents?

Tim darkxst at fastmail.fm
Sat Jun 14 02:27:37 UTC 2014


Hopefully https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1313996 gets approved for utopic, then we can ship the official nautilus builds with
tracker support!


On 13/06/14 22:09, Steve Ovens wrote:
> dist-upgrading from the staging ppa worked perfectly. Thanks!
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm <mailto:darkxst at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
>
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>     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> <mailto: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> <mailto: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> <mailto: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> <mailto: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>> <mailto: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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