On 12/06/14 00:46, Dave Steinberg 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. > Its probably fairly safe to remove from stable release (ie. 14.04) I wouldnt recommend removing it if running the dev release however, since you will miss any seed changes. Also not having any meta package installed (ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, etc) when upgrading to a new release could very well cause issues. > > 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. > This is true in theory, however in practice there could be missing dependencies in some packages that are masked by the meta package.
> Cheers, > Dave > > > On Jun 11, 2014 9:18 AM, "Steve Ovens" <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Tim <[email protected] > <mailto:[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]> <mailto:[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. 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