reopen 451752 !
retitle 451752 Please add 'RightClick>Edit>(installed recommended graphics
editors)'
severity 451752 wishlist
thanks
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> Electric Eyes is not included in the default gqview configuration anymore.
> Just remove that line from your configuration.
Thanks for the tip. I'd like to try that, but what configuration file
do I edit? It's not in '/etc':
% ls /etc/gqv*
ls: /etc/gqv*: No such file or directory
...and there's no mention of 'ee' under 'Edit>Preferences>Editors'.
> New users will not have this problem.
That's good, but let's not reframe this bug as an "old user problem".
Smooth upgrades are one of the best features of Debian.
If there's a line in some config file that's wrong, then the 'gqview'
package could deal with it in a setup or upgrade script -- assuming that
tweaking this config file is the right thing -- some users might want
Electric Eyes.
Possible fix:
Make a list of good/favorite Debian graphics editors.
At runtime have 'gqview' check which of these exist, and only
display the ones that do in the 'RightClick>Edit>...' menu.
That should always work, but requires a few disk reads to check for
editor path names -- perhaps 'dglob' would save time, by just checking
for the debian package names instead of the files themselves.
# on my system...
% dglob -r '^eeyes$\|^gimp$\|^xpaint$\|^xv$'
gimp
xpaint
As a further time saver, 'gqview' might keep it's own cached list, and
update it only when something's changed:
Is '/var/log/dpkg' newer than last time?
Yes: update list.
Maybe Gnome already has some built-in mechanism using 'mime' types
that does something similar or better. (I'm not a Gnome expert.)
HTH...
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