What does seahorse do?

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-11-29, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 20:46 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> f-spot, which I don't use and have never been able
>> to configure to shut up and not auto-run when I plug my camera or
>> camera card into the laptop.
>
> In any file manager window: Edit -> Preferences -> tab Media.

Aha, thanks!  This has changed significantly for the better since the last
time I tried to configure it.  (I especially like the "Never prompt or
start programs on media insertion" box, since that is *exactly* the
behaviour I want.)


>> How bad is it that I don't have ubuntu-desktop installed?  Should I
>> install it before I upgrade to 8.10, and then purge f-spot and
>> seahorse again?
>
> It doesn't matter if you don't have it installed. It's only purpose is
> to ensure that a whole "Ubuntu System" is installed.
>
> However, you absolutely have to install it prior to upgrading to a new
> release. Otherwise, important parts of the newer system might not get
> installed.

I suspected that.  I think I probably removed ubuntu-desktop after the
last distribution upgrade.


> If you go the unsupported route with changing sources.list and running
> "apt-get dist-upgrade", you are responsible for this yourself (like for
> many other things).

Indeed.  I tried that about two years ago and haven't tried it since.
My previous distrust of GUI package management tools betrayed me.

> If you go the supported and recommended route of using update-manager,
> then this will be taken care of automatically.

Even to the extent of reinstalling ubuntu-desktop, or should I
manually add that before using the update-manager to do the
distribution upgrade?


Thanks again for the advice.