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And that many choices are not documented in an accessible way. Even default choices. People complaining that desktop Linux is full of bugs and does not work. I
by nisa 13y ago
And that many choices are not documented in an accessible way. Even default choices. People complaining that desktop Linux is full of bugs and does not work. I think it works pretty well now, but the lack of man pages for anything desktop related is just sad. I'd like to understand how this works so that I'm able to fix it. But I can't easily I have to resort to wild googling, joining others in forums trying to decipher what these daemons are doing. This discourages to fix and understand things. At least for me.
Just some random examples from my Ubuntu Desktop (these are running by default as far as I know)
$ man dconf-service
No manual entry for dconf-service
$ man at-spi-dbus-launcher
No manual entry for at-spi-dbus-launcher
$ man console-kit-daemon
No manual entry for console-kit-daemon
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
- bkor 13y agoConsoleKit at least is deprecated. For the others, not sure if why you'd expect man files for them. They're just services, not something you'd run manually. If you make your intent clear, file a bug on it.
- jfb 13y agoBecause man provides access to the Unix manual? It's a commentary indeed when the man pages on a Macintosh are better.