Two problems with UbuntuMATE 19-10 - mouseover and shotwell

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:06:01 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>On standard Ubuntu you just have to unmount the camera in Nautilus,
>then shotwell can access it.

Caja and Nautilus might use gvfs and gvfs might auto-mount the
camera, even when not explecitely running those file browser, while
shotwell seems not to do so. I might be mistaken, however, gvfs is
another GNOMEish step in the wrong direction. While it's more or less
impossible to get rid of dconf, getting rid of GVFS works for me since
years by just replacing it with dummy packages.

To learn how to build a "fake" or "meta" package this not really
obsolete howto is still better, than any new howto I know:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

A control file could look like this:

# cat /mnt/moonstudio/usr/src/dummies/gvfs
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.9.2

Package: gvfs
Version: 2016:07-13-moonstudio
Maintainer: Weremouse <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
Architecture: all
Description: Dummy package

Just running equivs-build gvfs will build a dummy package. However,
some users are probably used to GVFS, so not everybody might be
comfortable with a dummy package.