Warren Togami wrote:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=50876
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=366523#366523
On the topic of the Firefox logo, this is some seemingly unhappy news.
The logo however is unrelated to your question.
I wouldn't worry too much about
this. We're still working on it.
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1272
The first hurdle will be eventual official inclusion into Fedora. The
first step in reaching that goal would be to make the Firefox 0.8
submitted package at fedora.us of the highest quality now. Could you
serve as an active liason with upstream developers in order to help this
process?
Agreed - I've been keeping an eye on the package progress so far. I
would be glad to help any way I can, including acting as a liaison with
the upstream developers. I'm in touch with the Firefox developers in the
context of the visual identity work, but I am not a developer myself.
That said, I do feel I can get the right information to the right people.
Blizzard mentioned that the lack of automatic importing is a blocker
for
inclusion of both Firebird and Thunderbird.
I certainly agree that with a mail
application, smooth profile migration
is key. However, with a web-browser, the profile is much less
significant. I'm not necessarily advocating the inclusion of Thunderbird
- especially with the great work being done with Evolution. So, as you
pointed out, making sure that Firefox can play nice with Mozilla Mail is
important, which leads us to...
I personally see the current poor situation of xremote clashes,
broken
xremote functions (while Thunderbird is running), and poor dekstop
integration (actually launching the right user-chosen Preferred
Application) globally as hurdles. I personally use a bunch of ugly hacks
in my personal FC desktop in order to make all the applications work
together.
The xremote problems make it extremely problematic to use Firefox, while
keeping the regular Mozilla suite as the mail client. Some users really
want to keep it this way. The lack of automatic importing makes it
difficult to quickly switch to the Firefox/Thunderbird combo. That combo
does work well with ugly script hacks that avoid the broken xremote
functions.
I completely agree. I had to get a script to launch Firefox too. It
works fine once a decent launch script is in place, but I agree that
this needs to be improved. That said, this is something that could
potentially be patched band-aid solutions in the Fedora package while
the core issues are worked out.
Is there anyone who has knowledge to help me talk to the Firefox
developers about the xremote problems, or better yet, someone who can
help the Firefox developers fix the problems? Please let me know.
gaim and other GPL applications that need SSL capability are unable
to use
OpenSSL due to GPL incompatibility. As a result gaim has the option of
linking against mozilla-nss or gnutls. gnutls is not shipped in the
distribution (something about code quality?), so gaim currently needs
mozilla-nss. I think fedora.us ships something that uses mozilla-nss too,
but I cannot remember off the top of my head. I suppose it may be
possible to link gaim to Firefox, but I don't know if anyone has tried.
I'm
not sure about this - can anyone clarify?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply Warren,
Steven Garrity