Re: [gcmd-usr] Problems building latest version

[R. Diez]

> Setting the appropriate environment variable is also what the the
> developers of GIO (the gnome library providing GSettings) say when the
> schema might be found in another than the standard directory
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/running-gio-apps.html
>
> You could define an alias for gnome-commander, which will always set
> the right GSettings directory when starting gnome-commander.

It would be better if gnome-commander tried to look for those files in a 
subdirectory relative to where gnome-commander is located, like GCC does 
in order to find its header and library files.

Alternatively, I think autoconf's --prefix= option sets variable 
"prefix", which you can then pass to the compiled source code.


> This is an indication that there is no gnomevfs daemon running on your

OK, thanks for the info. If this is a normal failure in modern 
distributions, is there a way to explicitly check for its presence 
beforehand, in order to avoid outputting an alarming warning message 
every time? Or just mention in the README that you probably want to 
disable it by setting "some_option=false" before building.


> [...] But you could just start typing "cd" and the cursor
> will imediately jump into the command line at the bottom
> [...]

I tried that trick, thanks. The trouble is, it feels weird, because 
you're not actually in a bash console. And there is no autocompletion, 
at least with the usual tab key. 8-(


> I honestly was not aware that Ctrl+L is a standard for this
> functionality. Who defined this standard? Gnome-commander is an
> independent project, not really related to any other file manager.

I don't know if it is a standard feature listed in some official 
document, but it is everywhere: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla 
Firefox, Google Chrome, Xfce's Thunar, KDE's Dolphin... And mostly with 
autocompletion. I can't live without Ctrl+L anymore. ;-)


> This feature is only available if the dev-package of file-roller is
> available on your system while configuring and building
> gnome-commander, as far as I know.

That should probably be mentioned in the README file, section "3. 
Building". Mentioning the name of the Ubuntu/Debian package would also 
help. I can see a "file-roller" package, but no obvious "-dev" counterpart.

Best regards,
  rdiez