To just see that other fields without caring about the geometry data, you can just open the dbf-file in any Excel, open office or something else reading dbf-files. 

Just be careful not to add or remove any rows, since that will corrupt the shapefile. 

/Nicklas

Is there a way to read the columns in a shapefile / layer without converting it first to an MDB file?
I have seen other answers to this question, but I needed to post this again because there is no response from the maintainers on guake on this issue. i saw the possible answers in this ask ubuntu answer here, but it did not apply to me. I tried both sudo apt-get remove --purge python-notify and then sudo apt-get install python-notify, and that did not change the situation at all, guake still will not start and i still get the same error message everyone else sees:

$ guake
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/guake", line 1429, in &lt;module&gt;
    if not main():
  File "/usr/bin/guake", line 1373, in main
    instance = Guake()
  File "/usr/bin/guake", line 660, in __init__
    notification.show()
glib.GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files


The answers in the previously referenced Ask Ubuntu answer no longer apply - there is no more patch to be found on the "official" guake.org site, as that site lost its domain on 20th October, 2014 and has not been updated nor is there a new site. There is no response either regarding that from the official maintainers at the github repository for guake. any other suggestions on making this work, or should i just uninstall?

Also, if the software, and its patches and its "official" site are not going to be maintained, I feel it should be removed from the Ubuntu Software Center - it is deceiving to install something only to have it not work and no other solution available.

please advise.
