Firebird, Thunderbird and Desktop integration fixes

[Warren Togami]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> n_powell wrote :
> 
> 
>>>Folks, does any know of a repo supporting Mozilla's Firebird for
>>>Fedora Core 1?
>>
>>dag has it.  Look again.  Or if he is in your sources.list - apt-get
>>install mozilla-firebird
> 
> 
> I tried it out a little while back, and found no way of getting good
> looking anti-aliased fonts, like I'm able to have in mozilla. Is there a
> way?
> 
> Matthias
> 

fedora.us anti-aliased fonts with our MozillaFirebird package works 
great for me.  Make sure however that you haven't installed other 
versions in locations like /usr/local because some 3rd party scripts in 
the past have tended to search directory locations and run it instead. 
This perplexed me a while when anti-aliased fonts stopped working 
*sometimes* when it was running the wrong installation of Firebird.

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1113
Please also try our latest MozillaThunderbird package with my attached 
open-browser.sh script.  It theoretically allows Thunderbird to smoothly 
use your "Preferred Browser" set in gconf, but the script needs more 
cleanups and testing.  The script needs to be improved to be able to 
support any browser that is configured with an absolute path in gconf too.

Unfortunately both /usr/bin/mozilla and /usr/bin/MozillaFirebird scripts 
are currently broken in the check_running() methods due to the 'ping()' 
xremote call failing with the same return value when Thunderbird is 
running.  The Thunderbird open-browser.sh contains an ugly but working 
workaround for this xremote problem.

During this winter break I am planning on working on the ultimately 
replacement for htmlview that respects the gconf preferred browser 
configuration while working for all browsers even while Thunderbird is 
running.  This is within my larger goal of working on patching various 
applications of our desktop software to better integrate.  This includes 
various aspects like clipboard behavior, and more common keybindings 
across GUI applications (Gnome and KDE).

Warren