Hi Dave, As I understand it, the meta package can actually cause problems if doing a do-release-upgrade. (This understanding may be flawed). At any rate, I did try and remove gnome-documents, and with it removed the search results don't show any documents (they still show folders, contacts etc)
Regards On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Dave Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer Ubuntu Certified Professional Novell Certified Linux Administrator
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