Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 20:17:28 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Need a bit of help with libgio Message-ID: <76049.1336447048@tristatelogic.com>
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I am trying to debug a problem with the gthumb application, and I'm stuck and failing to make progress because I have been unable to determine what the function g_vfs_get_file_for_uri is actually supposed to do, i.e. when it is actually operating normally. (And on my system at least, I am not at all persuaded that it is actually operating normally at the present time.) I'm looking at this page: http://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.28/GVfs.html and, um, not to put too fine a point on it, but the documentation there of the intended functionality provided by the library function g_vfs_get_file_for_uri is... well... rather entirely underwhelming, if not to say downright opaque. Is there by any chance an actual (and more complete) man page for this thing lying around somehere that I should be looking at? In the absence of that, I'd sure like to find someone (anyone) who might be able to help me to figure out why the the g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri funtion is refusing to do anything useful when it is passed the URI "ghelp:gthumb" and why it appears provide to its caller (in cases of failure) only the rather entirely unhelpful error string "Operation not supported". (What the operation in question was and/or why it is "not supported" is apparently left as an exercise... in clairvoyance... for the caller.) Please excuse me and ignore this message if g_vfs_get_file_for_uri is not in fact related to the Gnome project. I may be mistaken in thinking that it is due to the fact that I found the above (rather unhelpful) ``manual'' page on the server named developer.gnome.org. (I put the word ``manual'' in quotes here because I believe the web page in question does that stretch the bounds of what might reasonably be referred to as a ``manual''. Traditionally, manuals and/or man pages have customarily provided at least some useful information regading functionality. This does not appear to be the case for the ``manual'' page at the URL given above however.) Regards, rfg
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