Re: [Evolution] Question # 1

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 16:13 -0700, Yves Bajard wrote:
> Thanks for the inputs to my question #1 from Ritesh Khadgaray and Andre
> Klapper
>
> On the advice of Ritesh, I found gconftool in /usr/bin and started
> writing my command line as indicated by Andre.
>
> Now, I am stuck with qa last problem: in Mandriva, you do not ahve a
> folder called /Desktop.
This most probably refers to user's desktop directory.
$HOME/Desktop

Is this related to the below gconf-key ?

/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir
If set to true, then Nautilus will use the user's home folder as the
desktop. If it is false, then it will use ~/Desktop as the desktop.

> You have a number of Desktop folderes in /usr, /etc and /var. I tried
> the two which at first sight appeared to be the most likely to fint and
> did not "strike gold"..
>
> Now, here is the list of my folders containing Desktop or desktop:
>
>      1. /home/yvesbaja (my user name)
>      2. /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop
>      3. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/desktop
>      4. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/nautilus/desktop
>      5. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/desktop
>      6. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/nautilus/desktop
>      7. /home/yvesbaja/gconf./desktop
>      8. /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/desktop
>      9. /usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kcontrol/desktop
>     10. /usr/share/mcc/desktop  mcc styands for Mandriva Control Centre
>     11. /usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop
>     12. /var/lib/gnome/desktop
>
>
> I modified Andre's script for folders | 2 and 12. without success.
Which script ?
> Is there among you one person who would be capable of helping me make a
> choice among the ten rfemaining locations?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Yves Bajard
>
> PS: I leave the previous excnage below, for clarity
>
> Le vendredi 04 aoÃt 2006 Ã 06:58 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray a Ãcrit :
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:11 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > hi yves,
> > >
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 02.08.2006, 22:44 -0700 schrieb Yves Bajard:
> > > > One problem, though: my /opt is empty. Where can I find for
> > > > "/gnome/bin/gconftool-2"
> > >
> > > depends on the gnome installation directory of your distribution, don't
> > > know about mandrake specifically.
> >
> > mandriva does not install any software under /opt afaik
> > /usr/bin/gconftool-2 . should be in your PATH .
> >
> > > > I work in KDE 3.4.2.
> > >
> > > doesn't KDE also have a file search? ;-)
>
> Yes, a        nd I used it, Thanks.
> > > cheers,
> > > andre
> > >
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