| Summary: | mozilla-launcher has no documentation and doesn't appear to work | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jason Wever (RETIRED) <weeve> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | critical | CC: | ian.truelsen, mrannanj |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Jason Wever (RETIRED)
2004-03-29 18:14:29 UTC
After talking with agriffis on IRC, the only part of this that might still be valid is documentation. Feel free to keep it open for that or close it out. The documentation is a good idea. I'll keep this open until I put a comment at the top of the script, and I might even add a man-page to explain the purpose of the script. Another thought on this bug... could move mozilla-launcher to /usr/lib/mozilla-launcher/mozilla-launcher so that it's not in the PATH mozilla-firefox-bin's /usr/bin/firefox hasn't been updated to use this script... it's kinda moot to include the dependency for mozilla-launcher if you're not going to use it. and what happens if i like to have a symlink called mozilla that points to firefox (my current setup)? i do this because gnome 2.4 and other apps find mozilla rather than firefox... oh.. and i'd like vote against creating a whole directory for just a little script (<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46183#c3">#3</a>). I have the same problem with mozilla-launcher. I have firefox installed and when I launch mozilla-launcher it gives the unknown browser error. Looking at the script, it would appear that it needs to find firefox-bin in /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox directory. I have that: /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin This is firefox built from sources, not the prebuilt bin version. I thought that the problem was that it was greping for Firefox-bin and that the capitalization was the error, but that does not seem to be a problem. The problem might be that I do not actually have any idea what this script is supposed to accomplish. It looks like you should be able to run it to launch mozilla where needed, which might cure some odd problems that I am having, but I don't know if there are any environment variables to set up, or whether this is the actual usage of the script. Any ideas on why this is not detecting firefox, or what I am doing wrong with it? You aren't supposed to ever run "mozilla-launcher". If you look in /usr/bin, you'll see that you (should) have a symlink firefox -> mozilla-launcher. You should by calling it via the firefox symlink. Does that help? Yes, it helps. It's just that people want their system to be somewhat clean and at first sight this mozilla-launcher seems like a dependency without any documentation (about its purpose) and doesn't work on trying the executable. Makes people angry. okay, I moved mozilla-launcher to /usr/libexec where it can live without confusing people. |