How does GNOME 2.12 treats to you so far?

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:55:19 -0500, P.U.Kruppa <root at pukruppa.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello folks,
>>> 
>>> Please fill out your complaint, feedback, report bug or whatever for us 
>>> can write in known issues, faqs and fix stuff if need.
>> 1) Generally: Fantastic work so far, thanks!!! Didn't run into
>>    any errors with yesterday's portupgrade.
>
> Great!
>
>> 2) Some messy details:
>>    a) Menu entries seem to change randomly with every update.
>>       Smeg works fine, but I would like some safe place to store my
>>       entries.
>
> How do you mean by random?
My entries have vanished after some time (perhaps after 
upgrades?).

> Maybe it needs to be clean up? Try to use 
> gnome-menu-editor to see if it will making anything difference.
I will try this, but I think you can't add any icons with 
gnome-menu-editor nor change the order of your entries (both can 
be done with Smeg).

>    b) Is there some way to safely edit 
the "Open with ..."
>>       dialogs and set a favourite application (also I might like
>>       to add comments or change the name of the entry into
>>       something convenient).
>
> Yeah, you can click right on any file in nautilus. Like if you want *.png to 
> be open by gview or gthumb, then right click on one of .png file and click on 
> properties, then you will see 'Open With' tab in there.
That's a good example:
 	I have got gimp and eog in there. A double-click on the
         .png will start gimp. What if I want it to start eog
         instead?
         And something that irritates me: I can delete eog out of
 	this Open With menu but not Gimp.


>>    c) Mozilla family of browsers can't open .pdf files, I always
>>       get "running helper application..." and nothing happens.
>
> PDF plugins? or just to get browser to download and run PDF viewer by 
> automatic (not open inside browser)? If you are using Firefox, Mozilla or 
> different browsers other than Epiphany, then you will have to teach them on 
> your own in the mimetype option. As for Epiphany, it will download PDF file 
> and run Evince by automatic to open PDF file by default.
No, it doesn't. I have to download the file and then open it 
manually.

Regards,

Uli.

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