Package: multi-gnome-terminal
Version: 1.6.2-10
Severity: normal
note: i only use mgt, not the rest of gnome.
this is to let you know how hard it can be in certain circumstances,
at least for somebody not familiar with gnome, to get help on mgt.
i think comments in the mgt man page would be helpful.
when i run mgt and want help, i use the menu item.
this brings up my stored galeon session, which has tens of windows and
probably hundreds of tabs. i cannot let all that load to read the
help files.
hmm, perhaps this is due to my own configuration somewhere. so i grep
for galeon and browser and find nothing. .gnome* and .gconf* are
intimidating with multiple dirs, so i put that off for the moment.
so to figure out how to change this and read the help, i do man mgt,
ls /etc/alternatives, man sensible-browser, echo $BROWSER, man
environ, recursive grep /usr/share/doc/multi-....
then i discovered that mgt uses yelp. so i did man yelp. that did
not tell me how to do anything useful!
so i did locate multi | grep help and manually browsed. then i looked
for help, to fix the metaproblem, and found this:
Terminal Help
Get to this document from within Multi Gnome Terminal.
that didn't help either.
so in desperation i resorted to those intimidating gnome config things, doing
grep -r galeon .gnome* .gconf*. this resulted in a lot of lines including
this:
..gnome2.debian-backup/debian-upgrade.log:running: gconftool-2 -t string -s
/desktop/gnome/applications/help_viewer/exec -- galeon
so man gconftool-2. ugh. how do i find out the settings? gnomeTAB gconfTAB.
menu gnome control center.
oh great. i have to double click to get to those things. double
click is very hard for a lot of people who cannot do it quickly
enough.
reminded at every step why i stopped using gnome (no offense intended,
and i like mgt very much and it is my favorite terminal, but gnome is
very much not for me) i try everything there and find nothing.
imho it really should not be that hard.
can you please add a line to the man page saying how help is done?
thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11--from-2.6.9-proc-config-and-menuconfig
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages multi-gnome-terminal depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-16.2 imaging library for use with gtk (
ii libart2 1.4.2-19 The GNOME canvas widget - runtime
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libglade-gnome0 1:0.17-3 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglade0 1:0.17-3 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.4.2-19 The GNOME libraries
ii libgnomesupport0 1.4.2-19 The GNOME libraries (Support libra
ii libgnomeui32 1.4.2-19 The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgnorba27 1.4.2-19 GNOME CORBA services
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-17 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit0 0.5.17-11.1 Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxml1 1:1.8.17-10 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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