Re: gufw problem
On 12/08/2015 10:55 PM, Francis Gerund wrote:
Yes!
Thank you, Jape. This was the answer:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681315.
I guess I'm going to have to learn to hunt down (and to read) bug
reports. Ugh!
Reading Is Fundamental (blast from the past).
When you don't know how things work, it's the man pages.
When things don't work the way they should, it's the bug reports.
If you're new to this, sit back and relax and enjoy it. It's actually a
lot easier to solve problems like this in a GNU/Linux distribution than
it is in something like MS Windows. I mean, for any package you find in
Debian there are going to be man pages and bug reports, and probably
tons of other data, too.
I look at it kind of like an adventure game with puzzles, like Myst or
Riven (more blasts from the past).
Just editing the desktop.gufw file to comment out the offending (and
offensive!) line fixed it.
It now shows up (and works) in the "Favorites" bar and the application
menu, and I was even able to add it to the "classic" applications menu
in the Gnome 3 "classic" desktop view.
So it works in Gnome 3. Perhaps in XFCE there is a similar
configuration file that could be edited the same way (I don't use XFCE,
so I don't know).
Yes, I tested the solution in Xfce before I posted it. But I thought
you'd have to test it in Gnome before we could be absolutely certain it
would work there.
BTW, I really think that "blocking" line in the desktop.gufw was
deliberate. I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
Yes, of course. That line didn't write itself. I think it's really odd,
too, but I'm sure that whoever is responsible for it thought that there
was a good reason.
The package was actually developed under Ubuntu, if I remember
correctly. Maybe there was a difference in the way menus are handled
under the various desktop environments in Debian and Ubuntu. I wouldn't
know. The last time I touched Ubuntu was a long time before Unity came
along.
Thanks again to all for the help.
Just as a matter of etiquette for this mailing list, I thought I'd
mention a couple of things.
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way I've been replying to you.
It may take a bit of practice to get the quoting down right when
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I'm glad you got this sorted out. I was pleased to be able to help a little.
Best regards,
JP
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