[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gworkspace

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:43:25 +0200

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Jonathan Shipley wrote:

>G=C3=BCrkan Seng=C3=BCn <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> writes:
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>>Yes Debian is not only GNUstep. I have no problem with a Recommends or
>>Suggests. But Depends would be wrong imho.
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>Agreed.  I was only using this bug to show that some people use
>apps-wrappers.  I was making a case for 'recommends.'
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Another problem with apps-wrappers: it contains wrappers for non-free=20
apps and for apps not available in debian.

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>>About #240779 adding apps-wrappers to depends won't ensure gworkspace
>>to work as expected out of the box, because apps-wrappers don't
>>depends on the apps it has wrappers for. So i would just tag this
>>wontfix with an explanation why it won't work the way he thinks it woul=
d.
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This bug had been tagged 'wontfix' for a long time.

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>Yes - one of the problems of using apps-wrappers
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>   A better solution is
>required, like using .desktop entries.
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Fully agree with you.

>>>BTW, what browser do you use then?
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>>pity there is no gnustep browser yet. so i'm stuck with links2 -g,
>>dillo and galeon (depending what i surf, and if i need web forms).
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>But these won't work with gworkspace without a wrapper...
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So we need to find a special solution for browsers.

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>>I have gworkspace (not yet 0.7.0) and zipper is not running, tar.gz,
>>tar.bz2 are shown with the zipper icon in gworkspace and when i click i=
t
>>gworkspace (or something else) launches zipper and shows me the content
>>of the archive. yes something must be wrong with your setup but i don't
>>know what. maybe defaults read gworkspace or defaults read zipper helps=
?
>>and the gworkspace default application configuration...
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>OK - This seems to be a problem only with gworkspace-0.7.0.  It works
>fine when I downgrade.   Would you be able to check this?  It still
>might be a local error.
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>Regards,
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Jonathan Shipley wrote:
<blockquote cite=3D"mid87mzsfsv5s.fsf@sleeper-service.windj.ath.cx"
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  <pre wrap=3D"">G=C3=BCrkan Seng=C3=BCn <a class=3D"moz-txt-link-rfc2396=
E" href=3D"mailto:gurkan@linuks.mine.nu">&lt;gurkan@linuks.mine.nu&gt;</a=
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  <blockquote type=3D"cite">
    <pre wrap=3D"">Yes Debian is not only GNUstep. I have no problem with=
 a Recommends or
Suggests. But Depends would be wrong imho.
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=3D""><!---->
Agreed.  I was only using this bug to show that some people use
apps-wrappers.  I was making a case for 'recommends.'
  </pre>
</blockquote>
Another problem with apps-wrappers: it contains wrappers for non-free
apps and for apps not available in debian.
<blockquote cite=3D"mid87mzsfsv5s.fsf@sleeper-service.windj.ath.cx"
 type=3D"cite">
  <pre wrap=3D"">
  </pre>
  <blockquote type=3D"cite">
    <pre wrap=3D"">About #240779 adding apps-wrappers to depends won't en=
sure gworkspace
to work as expected out of the box, because apps-wrappers don't
depends on the apps it has wrappers for. So i would just tag this
wontfix with an explanation why it won't work the way he thinks it would.
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
</blockquote>
This bug had been tagged 'wontfix' for a long time.
<blockquote cite=3D"mid87mzsfsv5s.fsf@sleeper-service.windj.ath.cx"
 type=3D"cite">
  <pre wrap=3D""><!---->
Yes - one of the problems of using apps-wrappers
  </pre>
</blockquote>
<blockquote cite=3D"mid87mzsfsv5s.fsf@sleeper-service.windj.ath.cx"
 type=3D"cite">
  <pre wrap=3D"">   A better solution is
required, like using .desktop entries.

  </pre>
</blockquote>
Fully agree with you.
<blockquote cite=3D"mid87mzsfsv5s.fsf@sleeper-service.windj.ath.cx"
 type=3D"cite">
  <pre wrap=3D""></pre>
  <blockquote type=3D"cite">
    <blockquote type=3D"cite">
      <pre wrap=3D"">BTW, what browser do you use then?
      </pre>
    </blockquote>
    <pre wrap=3D"">pity there is no gnustep browser yet. so i'm stuck wit=
h links2 -g,
dillo and galeon (depending what i surf, and if i need web forms).
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=3D""><!---->
But these won't work with gworkspace without a wrapper...</pre>
</blockquote>
So we need to find a special solution for browsers.
<blockquote cite=3D"mid87mzsfsv5s.fsf@sleeper-service.windj.ath.cx"
 type=3D"cite">
  <pre wrap=3D"">.

[...]

  </pre>
  <blockquote type=3D"cite">
    <pre wrap=3D"">I have gworkspace (not yet 0.7.0) and zipper is not ru=
nning, tar.gz,
tar.bz2 are shown with the zipper icon in gworkspace and when i click it
gworkspace (or something else) launches zipper and shows me the content
of the archive. yes something must be wrong with your setup but i don't
know what. maybe defaults read gworkspace or defaults read zipper helps?
and the gworkspace default application configuration...
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=3D""><!---->
OK - This seems to be a problem only with gworkspace-0.7.0.  It works
fine when I downgrade.   Would you be able to check this?  It still
might be a local error.

Regards,
  </pre>
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