On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 11:30 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > This a nice solution - though I rather have a simple method of > > overriding the selection without editing a configuration file and/or > > making it system wide. > > IMHO, adding a command line parameters seems like the obvious choice as > > it gives the user additional means of controlling which version is > > executed. > > > > I can combine your patch with mine - read, use the default > > in /etc/sysconfig/firefox-arch unless the user specifically requested > > something else. > > Does it sound reasonable to you? > > > > - Gilboa > > I don't think there is much value to end-users to have a --32 or --64 > switch, because command line is NOT how you should expect users to > launch firefox. It wouldn't hurt to have the option though. I can argue that we can add a second icon that adds the --32bit command line parameter. > > Also keep in mind that due to xremote, you CAN'T run both 32bit and > 64bit browsers at the same time without making further modifications to > firefox to handle it. Known problem. It's possible to disable xremote check if --32/--64 parameter is set, but it may create havoc in the .mozilla directory, making it less, err, useful. > > In any case, merging our patches would be a moot point, because it wont > be accepted into Fedora. Point taken. ...One question though, if there's no way to use it (32bit firefox), why the !@?#^?#^ are we installing it in the first place? - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
