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Re: 9.0.6: Menu and launching-related issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Tue Jun 12 10:50:17 2001
Message-Id: <200106121450.KAA09756@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
received Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:45:42 -0400
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:50:12 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
> * gyruss, despite being a Solaris box claiming to run 9.0.6
> (according to the version file), still isn't getting the updated
> menus. This is apparently because of a faulty symlink at:
> /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/sun4x_58/srvd-9.0/usr/athena/share/gnome/athena/men
>us
Greg found the actual problem and submitted a patch.
> - Selecting an (i) item from the menu when I've already got Netscape
> open hijacks my Netscape window and puts its own content there. 8(
We discussed at release-team whether to use gnome-moz-remote or
htmlview, and decided on the latter. Dash has always used htmlview,
historical consensus I guess being that it's better not to pollute the
user's desktop with a new window for each entry they go to view.
--Abby
