Rutebook and a lot more

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/8/27 Young <tuxman at knology.net>

> 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?)
>
> ---------------------
> 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?

That's strange. The same thing happens to me, even after a reinstallation,
but on my wife's computer it works perfectly! Well, not perfectly, but it
works. It finds stuff, but some of the found stuff doesn't show up.
I would be interested to know how to get this thing work.
J.R.

>
>
> 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.
>
> END RANT
> --------------------------
>
> /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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