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
next prev 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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