Bug 442041 - Conflicts between "man totem" and "totem --usage"
Summary: Conflicts between "man totem" and "totem --usage"
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: totem
Version: 5.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-11 13:26 UTC by Milos Malik
Modified: 2009-04-21 13:57 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-04-21 13:57:56 UTC
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Description Milos Malik 2008-04-11 13:26:44 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080325 Fedora/2.0.0.13-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.13

Description of problem:
Totem man page contains following parameters, which are not supported by totem:

--gxid-host=host
--gxid-port=port

$ totem --gxid-host
Option '--gxid-host' is unknown and was ignored
$ totem --gxid-port
Option '--gxid-port' is unknown and was ignored

Totem usage message contains following parameters, which are not described in the man page:

--debug
--toggle-controls
--load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
totem-2.16.7-4.el5

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. man totem
2. totem --usage
3. search for differences among reported parameters

Actual Results:
Totem man page contains invalid parameters. Totem usage message contains parameters, which are not described in man page.

Expected Results:
Totem man page describes all parameters, which are supported by totem.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Milos Malik 2008-04-11 13:47:40 UTC
Man page of totem-video-thumbnailer doesn't describe what does the command line
parameter "-j".

$ totem-video-thumbnailer
Usage: totem-video-thumbnailer [-s <size>] [-j] <input> <output> [backend options]

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2009-04-21 13:57:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> From Bugzilla Helper:
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080325 Fedora/2.0.0.13-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.13
> 
> Description of problem:
> Totem man page contains following parameters, which are not supported by totem:

They are supported but ignored by the code that parses it in Totem.

In all cases, this isn't worth the time being spent on it, nobody reads man pages for GUI applications...

Fixed upstream in git master.


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