On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was
>> heard to say:
>>
>>> The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
>>>
>>
>> I installed flightgear on my computer ove
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu,
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:40:25AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..
I noticed your sig did not render correctly in my mailer. The deliniter
for a sig is -- not --
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the
>[Lisi] The reason that there is currently a little bit of confusion on
>websites
> is that the shunt Squeeze -> testing, Lenny -> stable, Etch -> old
> stable and Sarge -> somewhere-off-the-cliff only happened less than 3
> weeks ago on 14th February. The websites are being updated in roughly
> o
On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:57:48 Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby
was heard to say:
> > That's the package from etch, which is now obsolete.
I think he meant the package was obsolete, which is not entirely
On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:40:25 Bret Busby wrote:
> I am hesitant about trying to make changes to this system,
> which includes being wary of upgrading to Debian 5.0, until the ripples
> on the list about Debian 5.0, have settled.
There is no need to change at all if you are not happy to do so.
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote:
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Being a fan of Adams myself, I gave a bit of thought to your sig lines.
You may want to investigate Chapter 3 from the Debian FAQ:
http://www.debian.
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
Being a fan of Adams myself, I gave a bit of thought to your sig lines.
You may want to investigate Chapter 3 from the Debian FAQ:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:57:48PM +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby was
>> heard to say:
>>> b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat
>>> /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
>>> cat: /usr/share/applicati
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:57:48 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> I had delayed upgrading to Debian 5.0, as people appear to still have
> problems with upgrading to Debian 5.0, so I thought that it would be
> better to wait until things had settled, with Debian 5.0, perhaps, when
> release 2 appears, or some
n Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:57:48PM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
> I did say, in the intitial posting, at the start of the thread, that I
> am running Debian 4.0.
Yeah, I think that I just forgot.
> I had not realised that it is now regarded as obsolete.
It's regarded as obsolete *b
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat
/usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or
directory
Looks like you don't have t
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Eric Gerlach wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:40:51 -0500
From: Eric Gerlach
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Adding installed packages to menu
Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:41:22 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
> b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat
> /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
> cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or
> directory
Looks like you don't have that file at all.
> From history in
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> From history in Synaptic;
>
> "Commit Log for Mon Mar 2 13:41:22 2009
>
>
> Installed the following packages:
> fgfs-base (0.9.10-1)
> flightgear (0.9.10-2)
> freeglut3 (2.4.0-5)
> libalut0 (1.0.1-1)
> libopenal0a (1:0.0.8-4)
> plib1.8.
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu,
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
> The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under
"Applications -> Games". Its .desktop
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 03:57:18 Bret Busby wrote:
Perhaps, it is due to the categorizing of the games, within the KDE
applications menu, and it was not sure which subcategory of Games, was
applicable?
Possibly - but I have always understood that its
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 03:57:18 Bret Busby wrote:
> Perhaps, it is due to the categorizing of the games, within the KDE
> applications menu, and it was not sure which subcategory of Games, was
> applicable?
Possibly - but I have always understood that its function is specifically to
look for
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:49:02 Daniel Burrows wrote:
it looks like in Gnome, I can right-click on Applications
and pick "Edit Menus", and choose whether or not various menu items
appear.
In KDE, I just run kappfinder. Then tick (check) the things tha
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:49:02 Daniel Burrows wrote:
> it looks like in Gnome, I can right-click on Applications
> and pick "Edit Menus", and choose whether or not various menu items
> appear.
In KDE, I just run kappfinder. Then tick (check) the things that I want added
to the menu, and click
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:41:06PM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
>> It would seem logical, given one point of view, but as I mentioned
>> previously, that's not the behaviour that I desire from a package manager
>> any more than I want a link to the executable binary automagically added
>>
> Yes; each workstation installation that we have, whilst it has more than
> one user account, is used by only one person at a time, and is primarily a
> single-user system (but, I really don't like the pseudo thingy that Ubuntu
> uses, rather than having a root account. I much prefer having a roo
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:41:06 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> One major problem with Ubuntu, apart from the pseudo thingy, is the
> colour. I much prefer the blue colour of Debian (kind of like some people
> and cars; "What kind of car do you drive?" - "A red one" ; "what kind of
> linux do I prefer? - "
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote:
Also, I had (apparently, completely wrongly) understood that, when
installing a package with Synaptic, it was the role of Synaptic, as the
package manager, to ensure that the package was added to the relevant
menu, in the Applications menu hierarchy.
As I
>> Also, I had (apparently, completely wrongly) understood that, when
>> installing a package with Synaptic, it was the role of Synaptic, as the
>> package manager, to ensure that the package was added to the relevant
>> menu, in the Applications menu hierarchy.
>>
>>
As I mentioned previously, no
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:57:41AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
> Just a quick additional note; in the Properties information for the
> package, in both installations, with the label of Section, in the Common
> tab, both packages have the same value; "Games and Amusement".
The Secti
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Bret Busby wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby was
heard to say:
But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a
deliberate determination to not have the package management
automatical
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a
deliberate determination to not have the package management
automatically add the package to the menu, why then
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard
to say:
> But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a
> deliberate determination to not have the package management
> automatically add the package to the menu, why then would the Ubuntu
> package manageme
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Bret Busby wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package
and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its
dependancies t
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package
and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its
dependancies to be installed, but it does not add the p
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Bob Cox wrote:
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote:
Hello.
I am using Debian 4.0.
How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy?
Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that
helps.
--
> might be useful to you sometime. All of this can also be done from the
> command line but you probably want to use the GUI that you are
> already using.
I don't use the menus much -- I usually run things through the command
line as Thorny was saying -- but it looks like there's some menu
managem
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package
> and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its
> dependancies to be installed, but it does not add the packages to the
> menu, and, in th
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am using Debian 4.0.
>
> How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy?
Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that
helps.
--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bris
On Monday 02 March 2009 10:16:58 Bret Busby wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I am using Debian 4.0.
> >>
> >> How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy?
> >
> > Which version of which
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I am using Debian 4.0.
How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy?
Which version of which desktop environment? (Or window maker.)
Lisi
GDM 2.16.4-1 is the GNOME Dis
On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am using Debian 4.0.
>
> How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy?
Which version of which desktop environment? (Or window maker.)
Lisi
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Hello.
I am using Debian 4.0.
How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy?
Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a
package and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the
package and its dependancies to be installed, but it does not
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