[17124] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape 4.61 vs. 4.x language problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Wed Sep 1 13:08:12 1999
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:05:56 -0400
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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I may be misunderstanding. I think the behavior will be (when netscape-fix
"clears the old setting" )
1. After netscape-fix is run, the first time the user goes into the
netscape language settings, the values will be whatever the default is.
2. The user juggles these to the desired values inside netscape.
(assuming they want additional values)
3. From then on, they will be set.
I don't think the user will have to edit any files by hand (as Sara did),
just use the normal netscape language settings.
Perhaps not optimal (optimal would be for the system to upgrade whatever
settings I have, plus figuring out that I didn't realize what was possible
and adding the right values for me:-), but definitely better than
crashing.
One question -- will netscape-fix (or something) warn people that they are
losing their previous settings (if any)? I don't mind having to fix them,
but I do think not knowing I've lost some settings would be irritating.
mike
At 12:28 PM 9/1/99 -0400, t. belton wrote:
:)On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, John Hawkinson wrote:
:)
:)> | Thanks! This is not a setting I'd ever fiddled with, so I hadn't noticed.
:)> |
:)> | Parsing the line to remove the language names is probably beyond the
scope
:)> | of netscape-fix, so I'll just set it to clear the old setting out.
:)>
:)> Err, the implication is that this would require everyone to set
:)> the language preference by hand, as Sara ended up doing.
:)>
:)> Is that really acceptable?
:)
:)Not especially, no, but if the alternative is a crash every time someone
:)goes into the language settings, it may have to do. I mean, I suppose I
:)could put in a special case in netscape-fix to detect and parse that one
:)particular line. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble, especially since
:)I don't know how many people have customized their language settings.
:)
:)At any rate, I can look into that. Zeroing out the line is the quick
:)interim fix, one which doesn't even involve modifying the script at all. I
:)don't necessarily suggest that it be permanent.
:)
:)-Todd
:)
