Bug#327884: imview man page refers to non-existent user preference file

[Teemu Ikonen]

tag 327884 +pending

thanks

On 9/12/05, Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I would suggest changing the package so that, as the man suggests, a
 file called 'preferences' is created in the .imview directory of the
 user's home.  This is far easier to find and understand than
 .fltk/hugeus/talbot_csiro.au, which in itself gives no clues to the
 user as to what it is used for.

You are absolutely right. Unfortunately changing the preference file
location as you suggest is not possible with the current fltk-based
preference system and would thus require a rewrite of a big part of
the code. The fix for the moment will be to update man-page to point
to the right file. This will be made in the next upload.

Teemu

Bug#327884: imview man page refers to non-existent user preference file

[Kevin Coyner]

Package: imview

Version: 1.1.8-2
Severity: normal


In the FILES section of the man page for imview, there is a
reference that the User preference file can be found at:

~/.imview/preferences

However, in actuality, imview creates the following the first time it
is launched:

~/.fltk/hugues.talbot_csiro.au/imview.prefs

and it also creates an empty directory called 'imview'.

I would suggest changing the package so that, as the man suggests, a
file called 'preferences' is created in the .imview directory of the
user's home.  This is far easier to find and understand than
.fltk/hugeus/talbot_csiro.au, which in itself gives no clues to the
user as to what it is used for.

Kevin


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages imview depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.01.0.2-8high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6 2.3.5-6GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdps1   6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libfreetype6  2.1.10-1   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1   1:4.0.1-6  GCC support library
ii  libice6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjasper-1.701-1 1.701.0-2  The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii  libjpeg62 6b-10  The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1  1.13-1 Color management library
ii  libmagick66:6.2.3.6-3Image manipulation library
ii  libpng12-01.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm66.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++64.0.1-6The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4  3.7.3-1Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2   2.1.7-1FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1  6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2   2.6.20-1   GNOME XML library
ii  libxt66.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-4  compression library - runtime

imview recommends no packages.

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