Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Parkes alpha 1

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed,  8 Aug 2012, 10:54:37 EST, IntrosMedia <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2012/8/7 Karl Goetz <address@hidden>
>
> > **
> >
> > On Wed,  8 Aug 2012, 02:33:44 EST, IntrosMedia <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 06/25/2012 03:10 PM, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm glad to inform you that the first alpha installer for the 3.0
> > > > release (Parkes) is available for download at
> >
> > > These are the issues I've found so far:
> >
> > > - Epiphany Web Browser uses "User" directory as default for
> > downloads,
> > > it should
> > > use "Downloads" instead.
> >
> > Fairly sure thats the default in squeeze. It can be configured in
> > preferences.
> >
>
> Ah, yes, I know the user can configure it! I just thought the "Downloads"
> directory would be a better default.

It probably is, unfortunately it would be a delta gns has to carry. After release it might be done but im guessing its not critical to the release at the moment.

> > > - I couldn't open Gnumeric help. I get this error:
> > >
> > > Couldn't load the page
> > > The requested URI «ghelp:gnumeric» is not valid
> >
> > do you have yelp installed? If it is some mime package/s might be
> > missing.

> It's installed and works well when I open the manuals of default
> applications like GCalctool, Hamster, Empathy, etc.

Odd, i dont think i have seen that before.

> > > - Abiword freezes every time I select any option in the help menu
> > > (except the "About Abiword" option).
> >
> > If you run abiword from a shell does it print anything when you select
> > those options?

> No. And when I kill the application nothing abnormal is printed to the
> shell.

Might require running a debug build to work out the problem if it persists..
Thanks,
kk