Rutebook and a lot more
Young
tuxman at knology.net
Wed Aug 27 21:51:02 UTC 2008
So where is it?
See below.
TIP: After installing a program with Synaptic it's a good habit to
search (again) for the title, then right click on the package title,
select properties, then installed files. That will show you what files
were installed and where they were put.
There are many Synaptic (and probably Add/Remove) programs that
disappear after install. (Is Add/Remove really the name for that?)
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BEGIN RANT
And then, if you search for these newly installed programs that don't
appear on any menu, they won't show up. At least not if you use the
search that's accessed thru the panel or the Places menu. You know the
one. It says search for files in its title bar, and has the Find button
in the lower right. The one that apparently has no name. And no
documentation. There must be some rules about how it searches; it would
real nice to know what they are, because I can't get it to do most of
what I expect it to do. Now, if it only had a name, I might be able to
search for it; or should I say Find?
And Tracker Search Tool. Well, at least it has a name. It doesn't do
anything, but it has a name. It lets you type in a search string, and
then immediately and proudly tells you "Your search returned no results."
I assume there must be an index that has to be built, and maintained,
but how?
SUGGESTION: On these unnamed, or otherwise useless "out of the box"
programs, that are pre-installed, it would seem that the simple addition
of a help button that at would least reveal the name of the
program/utility, or actually lead you to useful information about the
program, would be an extremely high priority, a very high "bang for the
buck" ratio. Very easy to create, and very useful.
To Make a Link, or not to Make a Link:
What possible reason could there be to deny a user the ability to Make a
Link to a document/directory/program which they can open and use if they
navigate to it the hard way? What are the rules? Why have these
limitations that don't exist in other OSs? And don't tell me the
convoluted logic of the story about permissions. It's an attitude problem.
If Ubuntu really wants to be useful for the masses, these are just two
of the many things that have to be fixed.
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/usr/share/doc/rutebook/ is where Synaptic properties told me was.
The HTML front page is:
/usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.html
when double clicked it opened in my browser as:
file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/rute.html
which you can then bookmark.
The PDF version is in
/usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.pdf.gz
It would be really nice if you could make a link to this, but you can't.
And you can't extract it either. So, copy it to your chosen place, then
extract it if you want, and put it where you want to now, and even Make
a Link if you want.
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