Hi Steve, What's the concern with removing gnome-desktop? My understanding of meta packages is that they're basically just a simple installation mechanism. It's leveraging the dependency mechanism to define a default set of Gnome desktop applications.
I don't think there's any harm in removing the gnome-desktop if you want to remove gnome-documents. If there were any real dependencies on gnome-documents, those would be captured by other packages. Cheers, Dave On Jun 11, 2014 9:18 AM, "Steve Ovens" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to bump this back up. This is kind of an important thing to me. > Its functionality that works in Arch but not Ubuntu Gnome. If I enable > gnome-documents, the recently used documents show up in the activities menu > but I cant do anything with gnome documents (what an irritating program). > When I have just nautilus, there are no search results displayed. > > Should I be filing a bug for this? As a matter of troubleshooting I have > tried changing out the extension that does the searching. I get the same > results either way. > > Please advise > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Steve Ovens <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have set >> Disabled ['gnome-documents.desktop'] >> >> Which indeed prevents gnome-documents from displaying in the activities >> interface. However, the Nautlius Recent Items do not show up there. I >> logged out and back in, I have rebooted, I have reinstalled the Search >> Recently Used Files extension and I have tried changing the search order >> to: ['nautilus.desktop', 'gnome-contacts.desktop', >> 'gnome-documents.desktop']. I can see that I have items when I open "Files" >> in my "Recent" Places. >> >> Anyone have any further pointers? >> >> >> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Steve Ovens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 02/05/14 08:11, Steve Ovens wrote: >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Tim <[email protected] <mailto: >>>> [email protected]>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On 01/05/14 22:29, Steve Ovens wrote: >>>> > > Hi All, >>>> > > >>>> > > I have spent some time looking into this but I can't find >>>> anything definitive. I want to use the recently used files functionality, >>>> > however it >>>> > > always wants to open *everything* in gnome documents. This is a >>>> problem because a lot of the files have passwords and moreover, I actually >>>> > > want to *gasp* edit my files. In Arch I simply removed >>>> gnome-documents (or didnt install it in the first place). However in Ubuntu >>>> > Gnome, the >>>> > > ubuntu-gnome-desktop gets removed when you remove gnome >>>> documents. >>>> > Are you talking about the search results in the overview or >>>> something else? >>>> > gnome-documents search provider will open files with >>>> gnome-documents. >>>> > nautilus search provider seems to open files with the last used >>>> editor. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > So I am specifically talking about the ability to, from the >>>> shell/activities menu, type into the bar and pull up your recently >>>> used/accessed >>>> > files. Right now I believe I am doing this via a plugin. I like the >>>> ability to not have to open nautilus/take your hands off the keyboard to >>>> > open documents >>>> right these are the search providers and there are 2 that might provide >>>> file results (nautilus and gnome-documents). Look carefully at the icon >>>> in the Left hand column for the results you are clicking! >>>> >>>> You can disable the gnome-documents search-provider in >>>> gnome-control-center 3.10+ search panel , or using dconf-editor to set: >>>> org.gnome.desktop.search-providers disabled ['gnome-documents.desktop'] >>>> >>>> That way you will only get results from nautilus recently used >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks, I had to use the dconf-editor method because I did not see >>> anything in the GCC which had options I was looking for. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >>> >>>> > >>>> > I am open to learning a new way of doing this >>>> > >>>> > > >>>> > > Is there a way to actually disable, or otherwise tell gnome >>>> documents I dont want to use it? Can I remove this file some how without >>>> > removing >>>> > > the gnome-desktop meta package? Why are these considered >>>> dependencies? >>>> > > >>>> > gnome-documents used to be a hard dependency since it provides >>>> libgd which some other things used. I think these days libgd is mainly used >>>> > as a >>>> > git submodule and staticcally linked into programs that require >>>> it. >>>> > > Looking forward to your replies >>>> > > >>>> > > -- >>>> > > Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer >>>> > > Ubuntu Certified Professional >>>> > > Novell Certified Linux Administrator >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list >>>> > [email protected] <mailto: >>>> [email protected]> >>>> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer >>>> > Ubuntu Certified Professional >>>> > Novell Certified Linux Administrator >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer >>> Ubuntu Certified Professional >>> Novell Certified Linux Administrator >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer >> Ubuntu Certified Professional >> Novell Certified Linux Administrator >> > > > > -- > Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer > Ubuntu Certified Professional > Novell Certified Linux Administrator > > -- > Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome > >
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