Installing shoes

[Dassadar]

Hello,
I just migrated to Ubuntu, and I would like to run my shoes program easily by opening it with Shoes 3.3.
Can you please help on the procedure to:

• install Shoes 3.3 (what to do of the .install file?)
• open systematically a .shoes file with the installed Shoes 3.3?
  Thanks in advance!
  Regards,
  David

[ccoupe]

Hi David! @Dassadar

If you downloaded shoes3.3.0.install into your Downloads folder or where ever your browser stored, open a terminal, and cd to where the .install is. then
$ chmod +x Shoes-3.3.0-gtk3-x86_64.install
$ ./Shoes-3.3.0-gtk3-x86_64.install

The first command sets the executable permission. The second command executes the install. You'll get a message on the terminal that Shoes was installed and to look in your menus for it.

In your home directory will be a .shoes/ directory and a walkabout directory in there. If you want to run shoes from the command line then you could type $ ~/.shoes/walkabout/shoes file-to-run.rb

[Dassadar]

Thanks, it works.
However I cannot find Shoes in the "Open with" program list.

I tried to add a .desktop entry, but it doesn't help:

more /usr/share/applications/shoes.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=shoes
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Edit text files
Exec=~/.shoes/walkabout/shoes %f
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;
Icon=accessories-text-editor
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TextEditor;
X-GNOME-DocPath=gedit/gedit.xml
X-GNOME-FullName=Text Editor
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gedit
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.10.4
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-ExtraInfoScript=/usr/share/gedit/gedit-bugreport
Actions=Window;Document;
Keywords=Text;Editor;Plaintext;Write;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gedit

[Desktop Action Window]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=gedit --new-window
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

[Desktop Action Document]
Name=Open a New Document
Exec=gedit --new-document
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

=> any idea please?

Regards,
David

2016-03-01 23:03 GMT+01:00 Cecil Coupe notifications@github.com:

Hi David! @Dassadar https://github.com/Dassadar

If you downloaded shoes3.3.0.install into your Downloads folder or where
ever your browser stored, open a terminal, and cd to where the .install is.
then
$ chmod +x Shoes-3.3.0-gtk3-x86_64.install
$ ./Shoes-3.3.0-gtk3-x86_64.install

The first command sets the executable permission. The second command
executes the install. You'll get a message on the terminal that Shoes was
installed and to look in your menus for it.

In your home directory will be a .shoes/ directory and a walkabout
directory in there. If you want to run shoes from the command line then you
could type $ ~/.shoes/walkabout/shoes file-to-run.rb

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[ccoupe]

Menu's are bit of a mystery depending on your Choice of desktop manager. I happen to hate the default Ubuntu Unity thing with having to search for an app, so I changed mine to heavily tailored Cinnamon.

Did you try the logout, log back in advice?

In ~/.shoes/federales you may find a copy of the Shoes.desktop - don't delete it. It's needed to uninstall the menus once you find them.. I'd does show a working examples for many Linux desktops - not yours apparently so I can't help much. . desktop file are also stored in different places by different Managers, often in /usr/share but I've seen stuff in ~/.share and other places.

where ever they are, they were installed by xdg-desktop-menu.

[ccoupe]

You can also choose a different window manage from the Login page - Maybe Gnom-Shell works better?