On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 08:45, Warren Togami wrote: > In about a week I intend on issuing updates for FC1 control-center, > gnome-vfs2 and htmlview that backport the Preferred Application fixes > from FC2. These fixes were extremely simple and very well tested, and > corrects the very common problem of user applications not using the > chosen browser or mail client when URLs are clicked. Specifically these > changes I want to backport: > > * gnome-vfs2: Default gconf schema that defines the "about:" type. > * gnome-vfs2: Default gconf schema pointing to mozilla, so default > Desktop is guaranteed to run a browser that is installed. > * control-center: Preferred Application chooser sets http, https, about, > and unknown gconf keys. > * control-center: Preferred Application chooser shows only installed > applications, rather than a hard coded list. (Note that I need help > verifying that there were no end-user visible string changes that would > complicate things for non-English locales. I suspect this is not an > issue for this simple application.) > * htmlview: Use the above defined Preferred Applications in the "right" way. > * htmlview: Avoids known infinite loops. > * htmlview: Prevents invalid browser configurations, forcing user to > choose a different browser. > > These backported improvements also will simplify transition to FC2 later > for user desktop profiles, as all behavior should behave identically. > > I am warning the lists a week in advance so that people may suggest > other "known good" small fixes for these three packages. For example > someone suggested a minor x86_64 crash fix for control-center. Please > suggest other fixes. > > Warren Talking of extremely easy fixes for upcoming updates. It would be nice to see an official glibc-kernheaders rpm be rolled out to fix the '/usr/include/linux/timex.h' missing '/*' syntax error issue. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109517 Regards Philip Wyett -- Email: philip@xxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.wyett.net Public key: http://www.wyett.net/gpg/public_key.txt --
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