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Re: [Pan-users] Re: Can a KDE user take a look at this Bug?
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Darren |
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Re: [Pan-users] Re: Can a KDE user take a look at this Bug? |
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Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:03:11 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) |
Duncan wrote:
> They say that one advantage of open source is that given the world as an
> audience, all bugs are shallow -- someone will know what's up right away.
> This one proves the point, as I believe I know /exactly/ what's happening,
> having run into it myself, but believed it to be designed that way (that
> is, a feature).
>
> I'll put the details on the bug, but the gist is that where pan looks for
> the browser depends on whether it's compiled with or without libgnome.
> (The 0.107 ebuild makes use of the gnome USE flag to control that,
> according to a bug I filed with Gentoo -- I've not yet merged it.)
>
It looks like you are 100% correct, a KDE user who compiled from source
had no problems. Of course this causes other issues if I remove gnome
support for those who use gnome. Shouldn't Pan failover to using the
BROWSER variable if the gnome libraries are not available at runtime?