[gobolinux-users] KDE: Create new.... symlink???

[kenneth marken]

On Friday 07 September 2007 09:56:57 Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> 2007/9/7, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no>:
> > On Friday 07 September 2007 08:58:15 Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> > > 2007/9/7, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no>:
> > > > On Friday 07 September 2007 08:50:34 kenneth marken wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 07 September 2007 08:48:43 Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > On 9/7/07, Michael Dickson <mike at communicatezing.com> 
wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > I just noticed that when I right-click on the Desktop
> > > > > > > > > > > and choose Create New -> "..."
> > > > > > > > > > > the resulting file is a symlink, not the real file!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Konqueror should read the link, so this should be reported as a
> > > > > > bug upstream.
> > > > >
> > > > > should be simple to test. im guessing that disabling say koffice
> > > > > should fix it?
> > > >
> > > > bah, argument list to long. i thought that one was fixed.
> > >
> > > Yes, it's fixed in CVS.
> >
> > hmm, i thought i was using cvs...
> >
> > need to recheck that...
> >
> > yep, cvs-20070814. is it a more recent version that fix it?
>
> Yes, fixed 2007-08-30:
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/tools/Scripts/bin/DisableProgram?cvsroo
>t=goboscripts&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/tools/Scripts/bin/RemoveProgram?cvsroot
>=goboscripts&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/tools/Scripts/Functions/GoboLinux?cvsro
>ot=goboscripts&r1=1.35&r2=1.36
>
> > > > also DisableProgram moves/renames the koffice 1.6.0 dir to 1.6.0 when
> > > > all it needed to do was remove the current symlink and clean up the
> > > > /System/Links area...
> > >
> > > See my other reply.
> >
> > i see it, and may look into it (but i dont make much use of the feature.
> > to much of a habbit of starting the app first, then worrying about what
> > file type i want to make) but it does not explain the behaviour of
> > DisableProgram...
>
> Which behaviour? The argument list issue?
>
> > and if i does SymlinkProgram after that, it symlinks to
> > "version"-disabled, not rename the dir back and then symlink it to
> > current.
>
> Yes, that's due to DisableProgram dying before moving the disabled
> version back to normal state.

that explains it. i take it DisableProgram dies because of the argument list 
issue. well i guess i should go update scripts to latest CVS then.