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From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setting default pdf viewer
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:33:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa3i1tkt.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13237.1331648207@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:16:47 -0400")

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Part of my frustration with these things (gnome things in particular) is
> the sparse-to-non-existent documentation,

But Nick, the GUI is everything now.  Who needs documentation! ?  :-(

Anecdote.  A big, complex translation system was demonstrated to a few
governmental possible buyers, who were taking it a bit from above.  At
the end of the demo, the technician decided to leave printed copies of
the documentation.  One of the receiving guy said: "What?  You mean that
your users actually have to *learn* how to use your system?"

Sorry!  But am i?  I did not even want to resist :-).

> that's a fight that's been fought and lost many times - many more times
> than it's been won.

On the Linux system, I seem just unable to find everything that needs to
be changed to prevent Nautilus from ever getting started.  In
particular, "xdg-open DIRECTORY" required that I patch the program
rather setting parameters.  It is very possible that I might have done
it all wrong, but for me at least, it *is* frustrating.

> Enough venting: I've veered off-topic quite a bit here.  [...] But I
> hope that the discussion, however tangential, is useful.

Well, you allowed me to release some steam.  Thanks! :-)

François

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 14:16 setting default pdf viewer Nick Dokos
2012-03-13 15:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-03-13 15:47   ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-13 21:32 ` Achim Gratz
2012-03-15  2:33 ` François Pinard [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-11  8:01 prad
2012-03-11  8:17 ` Puneeth Chaganti
2012-03-11 17:15   ` prad
2012-03-11 22:25     ` brian powell
2012-03-12  0:50 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-12  1:58   ` prad
2012-03-12  2:50     ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-12  5:06       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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