dist-upgrading from the staging ppa worked perfectly. Thanks!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. 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]> <mailto:[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] <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
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