How does GNOME 2.12 treats to you so far?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:48:21 -0500, P.U.Kruppa <root at pukruppa.de> wrote:

> 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?).

Try to storage the default:

	# rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications
	# rm -f ~/.config/menus/applications.menu

There is a known issue in smeg that cause menu disappear in the previous  
version, but not in up to date smeg and py-xdg.. I just checked in Ubuntu  
forums.

>> 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).

gnome-menu-editor still isn't complete done. It's kind of shame on GNOME  
team for not finish menu editor. :-/

>>    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?

Same place, right click on file -> properties -> 'Open With' then change  
the default app what you want to open. Or right click on file -> 'Open  
with [...]' and select what apps you want to open.

>          And something that irritates me: I can delete eog out of
>  	this Open With menu but not Gimp.

Maybe need to select on eog then delete gimp? I can see that it will not  
allow us to remove if it only has a entry. It's something that you will  
have to report in GNOME bugzilla.

>>>    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.

Yes it does, maybe need to clear up somewhere in ~/.* configure file.. Try  
to login in a dummy account, then use Epiphany to find PDF link and click  
on it.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Regards,
>
> Uli.
>
> *********************************************
> * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany *
> *********************************************


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