From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org)
	by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-54620-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>)
	id 1GjLAZ-0003kq-Dk
	for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:39:07 +0000
Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kACJauJc006499;
	Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:36:56 GMT
Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184])
	by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kACJYlow011308
	for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:34:47 GMT
Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so773266nfb
        for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:34:47 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
        s=beta; d=gmail.com;
        h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth;
        b=qVjEuJhkqchhmUnRSbHoZMl/obIQCisJBM0EF64Gn4C2k2crv0onUV9sI3Pg/vu8w8mSr6diQDmYanX38nI/6rJ00urdnlyoug3bGUWXx0Sn3eQqvpHyE+jOIpTxGRzkmzyonzFUMn1ebFXpbxtH14wNCi3U/R88joX5w1ggt1Q=
Received: by 10.82.126.5 with SMTP id y5mr527829buc.1163360086606;
        Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:34:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.82.106.3 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:34:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <7573e9640611121134q74409038n8a637e1911f53258@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:34:46 -0700
From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?
In-Reply-To: <1605421.DR8e0rDRcS@m-id.message-center.info>
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <1605421.DR8e0rDRcS@m-id.message-center.info>
X-Google-Sender-Auth: b230996c1ac01691
X-Archives-Salt: 49a6be43-437f-4ae8-acd9-eb100a7a1ffa
X-Archives-Hash: f661126e8e9660d3a2048f3be862d98e

On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser,
> so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in firefox. I did this by
> modifying .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and adding/changing:
>
> [General]
> BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/firefox

You could also set this to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox to bypass
mozilla-launcher.

> I now changed the /usr/bin/firefox script so, that it doesn't
> use mozilla-launcher anymore. Up to now, I can't find any problems.
>
> What problems did I overlook? And what's actually the use of
> mozilla-launcher with current firefoxes?
>
> What would break, if mozilla-launcher is no longer used?

Nothing that I can tell....

It looks to me like the main purpose of Gentoo's mozilla-launcher was
to transparently support both firefox and firefox-bin (or mozilla and
mozilla-bin, or thunderbid and thunderbird-bin, etc), and to make sure
that new urls re-used an existing instance.  Current firefox versions
seem to support this internally, and you end up with firefox or
firefox-bin installed in /usr/bin depending upon which one you
install.  I don't see any reason why /usr/bin/firefox can't exec
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox and /usr/bin/firefox-bin can't exec
/opt/firefox/firefox.

> Cf. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150404

As you have probably already seen, I added a small patch to the bug,
just in case the Gentoo devs want to keep it around.

> Or should I take this thread and purpose (ie. dump mozilla-launcher
> for at least firefox) to the dev list?

Yeah, -dev would be the appropriate place to bring up dumping mozilla-launcher.

-Richard
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list