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csd, csd?

Mon Oct 24, 2016 9:24 am

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 ... n.html#dng

Alas, gtk3 causes gnomeization of everything it touches. Try the file open
dialog, or even worse, the font selection dialog. The worst part, CSD, is not
mandatory _yet_ but has already found its way to a number of programs that
are hawked as "desktop-agnostic". Thus, we need to change task-desktop to
use atril instead of evince, eom instead of eog, etc.


1. whats csd? (anyone?)

2. ive never disagreed with changing evince to atril-- atril is what i expect, when i run evince. the new evince is awful-- trust me, its part of fig os 2.2 and its awful.

the reason its there is that i dont believe anything should required /var/lib/dbus/machine-id (uuidd) and if i thwart machine-id then atril does not work :)

so im forced to either run evince (which does at least work) or stop deleting machine-id, or use another pdf viewer (believe it or not ive been fighting against gnome for as long as mate has existed, and i still use gimp and evince because i like evince even more than i loathe gnome.)

hopefully future versions of atril will run without this:

Failed to get bus connection: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Unable to load /var/lib/dbus/machine-id or / etc /machine-id: Failed to open file '/var/lib/dbus/machine-id': No such file or directory


then evince wont be an issue. atril does run even in this context-- but when you open a pdf, it wont. ive tried opening with a pdf, and opening and then loading the pdf after.

Re: csd, csd?

Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:56 am

probably client-side-decortions.
I had to use a searchengine, i don't really understand such stuff. nor care for it, as long dependencies don't get in my way.

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/08/how-to-d ... -side.html

Re: csd, csd?

Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:19 pm

Gnome wants to control the look of their DE so it has become less and less customizable. It's a branding thing and it sucks. Users will take what Gnome decides to give them.

Re: csd, csd?

Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:51 pm

golinux wrote:Gnome wants to control the look of their DE so it has become less and less customizable. It's a branding thing and it sucks.


dont they know ive been customizing windows for years?

i get it if this is the starter edition, but if i subscribe to the enterprise license can i at least change the border sizes, possibly with a .reg file?

obviously im going to have to call customer service again. its not the wait, its the awful music they play on hold-- and getting transferred back and forth is always fun.
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