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Bug 355957 - Return Missing Command Line Arguments To 2.8
Return Missing Command Line Arguments To 2.8
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-14 13:11 UTC by David Richards
Modified: 2006-09-14 16:34 UTC
See Also:
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Description David Richards 2006-09-14 13:11:15 UTC
Please describe the problem:
These command line flags below are missing in 2.8.  The -c and --offline especially were used to fix accounts that are messed up or have been misconfigured by users in order to repair them.  We use these flags all the time.

Application options
  -c, --component=STRING                 Start Evolution activating the
                                         specified component
  --offline                              Start in offline mode
  --online                               Start in online mode
  --force-shutdown                       Forcibly shut down all Evolution
                                         components


Steps to reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2006-09-14 16:06:05 UTC
what do you mean by "they are missing"? aren't they displayed when running "evolution --help", or do they just not work at all?

cannot reproduce either of it.
Comment 2 David Richards 2006-09-14 16:10:47 UTC
They are missing with --help and also do not work:

drichard@oa3:~> evolution-2.8 --help
Usage: evolution-2.8 [OPTION...]
  --load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...     Dynamic modules to load

Help options
  -?, --help                             Show this help message
  --usage                                Display brief usage message

GTK+
  --gdk-debug=FLAGS                      Gdk debugging flags to set
  --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS                   Gdk debugging flags to unset
  --display=DISPLAY                      X display to use
  --screen=SCREEN                        X screen to use
  --sync                                 Make X calls synchronous
  --name=NAME                            Program name as used by the window
                                         manager
  --class=CLASS                          Program class as used by the window
                                         manager
  --gtk-debug=FLAGS                      Gtk+ debugging flags to set
  --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS                   Gtk+ debugging flags to unset
  --g-fatal-warnings                     Make all warnings fatal
  --gtk-module=MODULE                    Load an additional Gtk module

Bonobo activation Support
  --oaf-ior-fd=FD                        File descriptor to print IOR on
  --oaf-activate-iid=IID                 IID to activate
  --oaf-private                          Prevent registering of server with OAF

GNOME GConf Support

GNOME Library
  --disable-sound                        Disable sound server usage
  --enable-sound                         Enable sound server usage
  --espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT               Host:port on which the sound server
                                         to use is running
  --version                              2.12.0.1

Session management
  --sm-client-id=ID                      Specify session management ID
  --sm-config-prefix=PREFIX              Specify prefix of saved configuration
  --sm-disable                           Disable connection to session manager

GNOME GUI Library
  --disable-crash-dialog                 Disable Crash Dialog
drichard@oa3:~> 
Comment 3 André Klapper 2006-09-14 16:22:51 UTC
looks like a novell-build-only-issue to me, and not like a gnome-evolution one... :-)

mine (2.8.0head) looks like pretty different because of bug 335967
( http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/shell/main.c?r1=1.180&r2=1.181 ):

$:andre\> evolution-2.8 --help
Usage:
  evolution-2.8 [OPTION...] - The Evolution PIM and Email Client

Help Options:
  -?, --help                     Show help options
  --help-all                     Show all help options
  --help-gtk                     Show GTK+ Options
  --help-bonobo-activation       Show Bonobo Activation options
  --help-gnome                   Show GNOME options
  --help-gnome-session           Show session management options
  --help-gnome-ui                Show GNOME GUI options

Application Options:
  -c, --component                Start Evolution activating the specified component
  --offline                      Start in offline mode
  --online                       Start in online mode
  --force-shutdown               Forcibly shut down all Evolution components
  --debug                        Send the debugging output of all components to a file.
  --disable-eplugin              Disable loading of any plugins.
  --display=DISPLAY              X display to use

Comment 4 André Klapper 2006-09-14 16:32:09 UTC
goption was introduced by glib-2.10 and supported by libgnome-2.14
Comment 5 David Richards 2006-09-14 16:34:49 UTC
Per IRC with Andre, closing.  Looks like the GOBJECT removal in the source to get it to compile on 2.12 is doing this.

It sure would be nice to compile on stock SLED 10.  That one area is the only thing that failed to compile.