[41] in installers
Ksign installer and desktop file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Repa)
Wed Mar 19 15:15:00 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 14:45:27 EST
From: Jim Repa <REPA@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: INSTALLERS@MIT.EDU
Hi,
We've noticed an intermittent problem with the Macintosh installer for
Ksign involving the Macintosh desktop file. The Ksign application is
a helper application for use with Netscape. Our installation instructions
have each user run the installer and then configure Netscape to run
the KSIGN application whenever it encounters a document with the mime
type of "text/ksign". After pointing Netscape to the Ksign application,
it still sometimes gives users an error message that it could not
find the application with a suggestion that they rebuild the desktop.
Doing so fixes the problem.
Since rebuilding the desktop is a time-consuming process, I'd rather not
make it a prerequisite for installing the Ksign application. Clearly,
the Macintosh has ways of finding out about new applications without
having its desktop rebuilt.
Alternatively,
(1) Is there something that one should do in the Vice installer
to have it inform the Macintosh of the existence of a new
application?
(2) If not, is there a quicker way than rebuilding the desktop to tell
the Macintosh of the existence of the Ksign application, e.g.,
running it by hand by double-clicking it? (This will give users
the dialog box for registering with the version server and then
inform them that they're trying to run a helper application.)
Jim
