Re: Installing gnome-pilot 2.0.16

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

Hi again,

answers inline.

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:04 +0200, Daniel Clément wrote:
> Hello Matt,
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 14:26 +0100, Matt Davey a écrit : 
> 
> > Hi Daniel,
> [...] 
> > I suggest you take a look at the recent discussion on this list.  The
> > thread started here:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2008-August/msg00011.html
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > Matt Davey		Diplomacy is letting them have it your way.
> > mcdavey mrao cam ac uk 
> > 
> 
> Indeed this thread made things a little clearer (I only searched for
> gnome-pilot 2.0.16 in the archive).
> 
> It's true that my Evolution-related conduits were gone. Now I can see
> how to restore them. (Strangely, they are here
> under /usr/share/gnome-pilot-conduits even though the
> gnome-pilot-conduits 2.0.15 package is suppressed...)

The evolution conduits are part of the evolution distribution, not
gnome-pilot-conduits.

> Then, your advice was to search for a the GNOME_PilotApplet.server file.
> I was unable to locate it under /lib/bonobo/servers/ (I don't have
> a /lib/bonobo/ directory, perhaps because I have suppressed the original
> gnome-pilot package).

I presume it was removed when you removed the gnome-pilot 2.0.15
package?

> But I do have one such file under /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers, along
> with a GNOME_Pilot_Daemon.server.
> 
> There I must confess my poor knowledge... what should I do with them? I
> don't know how to get the gnome-pilot daemon started, neither to access
> its settings from the system menu!

On my ubuntu install, I have a
file /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml that lists the
directories in which the system searches for .server files.
Add /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers to the list.

> Shame on my ignorance...

Not at all!

Matt

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