How to remove gnome documents?

[Steve Ovens]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

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> 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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