gnome 2.6 - missing features

kill_switch · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 32

Does anyone feel the same?
I´ve installed Gnome 2.6-rc2 and I´m missing some of the core functionality in yelp, the search function and nautilus is overwriting folders in subfolders...

altough I like the speed of this release and the better file dialog, why are these things missing now????
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Anderas · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 77

And why is SMB still borken beyond recovery? =P
(Yeah I know, I have no rights to complain, as I can't even program a tic-tac-toe game as if it were for my life.)

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

How is SMB broken?

I admittedly don't use smb:// to mess around with stuff on my shares simply because the number of programs that support gnome-vfs are too spotty for me to have it really working, but between programs that actually support gnome-vfs, smb:// seemed to work fine.

kill_switch · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 32

smb:// seems to work fine for some..
but not for me.

It doesn´t find workgroups, computers, ...
It´s sometimes even crashing nautilus....

(yes, i sent a report)
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Anderas · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 77

I've never had it work, ever. And I am sure my Samba installation works, other smb clients work just fine.

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Hopefully I'm not insulting your intelligence, but you did emerge gnome-vfs with 'samba' in your USE flags, correct?

smb support isn't installed by default in gnome-vfs, perhaps with good reason, since gnome-vfs's smb support pulls in the masked samba3.

vificunero · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject:

Well just finished to emerge the gnome rc3 but I have a little problem (guess it's a metacity one). If I use xinerama with dual monitors and if I maximaze a window then it takes the whole two screens and this is not very practical. I've reemerged metacity wiht USE="-xinerama" but nothing changes.

tphamm · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

SMB support works for me....sorta. Nautilus doesn't show an icon for my WinXP system (only my Samba server), but I can view it just fine when I type the name into the location bar. Had it lock up Nautilus on me once. Other than that, it works ok.
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hashpuppy · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 3

Superjaded, thanks for the gnome-vfs tip.

I spent the better part of 30 minutes cursing the GNOME devs for documentation that I thought lied, as none of the SMB tips worked

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daysleper · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Norway

man .. 2.6 is good an all .. but yes, I also miss the search facility in Yelp.

tuxlearner · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:42 am Post subject:

saskman · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:57 am Post subject: Yes Yelp is a problem but....

I've found a couple of problems with the 2.6 system like yelp and for some reason it doen't do a dir refresh all the time when you create a directory from the save file to location dialog. However I've never had samba work better.
I have two XP systems on the home network and I can find them fine and access the resources without any problems, oddly enough I didn't even configure anything in samba!

--Saskman
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