firefox and thunderbird for rawhide

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Wed Sep 1 11:03:07 UTC 2004


Warren Togami schrieb:

> Mike Chambers wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 23:48 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>>> According to Havoc, firefox and thunderbird must be added for 
>>> FC3/RHEL4 target.  I am now rushing to build them into rawhide.  
>>> Your assistance in testing and analysis would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Does this create an icon anywhere and if not, what is needed to start
>> it?  Will it conflict with mozilla itself if it's installed?
>>
>
> If you are running FC1 or FC2, install firefox or thunderbird from 
> Extras stable.  Those show you exactly how it would work in FC3.  Nice 
> looking icons for firefox and thunderbird are dropped into the 
> Internet menu.  And you can use the Preferred Applications dialog to 
> choose firefox and thunderbird as your chosen apps.  The Preferred 
> Application thing works very well on FC2 and FC3, but FC1 has 
> problems.  Legacy may want to consider doing simple changes to 
> control-center and gnome-vfs2 to bring FC1's Preferred Applications 
> capability to par with FC2 and FC3.  That would be their call.
>
> Warren
>
>
i don't know if this is abug or not but all system-config-* tools open 
mozilla when pressing help even if firefox is set in prefered applications





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