Michal Čihař wrote:
Hi
Dne Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:50:53 -0500
Gene Cash <[email protected]> napsal(a):
OK, then, what's the last real version of gqview, so I can reinstall the
package and get rid of this piece of junk, and pin it in my apt preferences?
It does very irritating things with its windows, and it has already
managed to delete a lot of my .desktop files.
What irritating things with windows? Where did it delete .desktop
files? Including useful information in bug report is usually better
than just ranting.
Well, as I mentioned in another bug, when I deleted entries from the
"external editors" dialog, it deleted the actual .desktop files.
Fortunately I had recent backups of my system.
The reply to that was "gee, I thought those files were write-protected"
And as I mentioned in yet another bug, to add external editors, you have
to know how to write a .desktop file. I don't know how, and I don't
already have such a file for Firefox, so I can't use Firefox for
animated GIFs, text files or HTML files. I don't have one for Adobe
Acrobat either, if I wanted to use that instead of xpdf for a
badly-formed PDF or whatever.
The reply to the bug was "oh everyone knows how to write a .desktop file!"
I recently noticed that the list of editors that appears for any
particular file is random, and usually has just gimp, or is totally empty.
And in another bug I mentioned that when you close the main file list
window, it unfloats it instead of closing the app as expected, and as
gqview does.
The reply was "we'll change the wording of the checkbox"
I believe all these bugs have already been closed as pretty much "who
cares?" so I'm not going to bother filing any more.
Actually, I filed these on geequie itself, so you probably haven't seen
them, come to think of it...
The transition was decision of former gqview maintainer and nobody
else wanted to step up to maintain gqview. Mostly because there is
nothing better in gqview. If you are willing to maintain it and fix
bugs in it, feel free to do so and I will remove the transitional
package from geeqie.
OK, I don't care. I'm not going to battle with people about this any
more. I just want to find the version of the last real gqview package so
I can download it and install it, and pin it so it doesn't get upgraded
again. Problem solved for everybody. The "whack! where did my program go
that I depend on several times a day? and I can't get the new one to do
what the old one did! I'm screwed!" feeling has left me with no need to
try geequie again.
-gc
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Gene Cash
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