Rutebook and a lot more

[Graham Watkins]

Young wrote:
> Graham Watkins wrote:
>   
>> Young wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> You can make a link to this - I've done it.
>>
>> file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.pdf.gz
>>
>> A program called okular (which I didn't even know I had) opens it. I 
>> even turned the graphic at the top of the html page into a desktop icon.
>>
>> But I do agree that it would be a good thing if this and some other 
>> programs ought to be a bit more user-friendly to beginners.
>>
>>     
> Could you please give more detail about how to create the link.
> file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.pdf.gz
>
> If you meant Launcher, I tried that, but it won't work. Did you edit the 
> privileges?
>
> When I open rute.pdf.gz, Evince Document Viewer is used.
>
> A search of Synaptics for okular finds a KDE4, so I'm guessing you're 
> using Kubuntu.
>
>   
If you mean right-click on desktop and select "create launcher", then 
that's what I did and so far as I can remember, I didn't have to change 
any permissions.  I thought (and maybe someone could correct me if I'm 
wrong) that, as it's name implies, stuff in /usr/share was accessible by 
all users.

I have KDE4 installed but I don't use it because it's pants.  Some of 
the programs included with it are pretty good though and I can access 
these from Gnome or XFCE4.

Cheers,

-- 
Graham Watkins

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