Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 08:04:01 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: nik@freebsd.org Cc: knu@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/netscape4-communicator Makefile ports/japanese/netscape4-communicator/pkg PLIST ports/japanese/netscape47-communicator/pkg PLIST ports/korean/netscape4-communicator/pkg PLIST ports/korean/netscape4-navigator/pkg PLIST ports/korean/netscape47-communicator/pkg PLIST ... Message-ID: <863dns63vi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Mon, 8 May 2000 22:42:53 %2B0100" <20000508224253.A13543@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200005081920.MAA53910@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000508224253.A13543@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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At Mon, 8 May 2000 22:42:53 +0100,
Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> > Log:
> > Make netscape4 ports use the new wrapper which I've freshly imported
> > as www/netscape-wrapper.
>
> Just so I understand this correctly. Does this mean that if you run
> netscape now, the default is to open a new window if a copy of Netscape
> is already running, instead of starting a new instance of Netscape?
Exactly.
> If that is the case, could it be reconsidered. I realise
>
> > Approved by: sada (conditionally), o`brien
>
> but in my experience with Netscape, it's too buggy to reliably let you
> open lots of windows. If I have to look at a bunch of sites at a similar
> time it makes more sense to open several copies of Netscape -- that way,
> if one of them dies it doesn't take down all the other Netscapes with it.
> IMHO, if a user runs a new netscape (as opposed to choosing "Navigator
> Window" from the "File" menu) then they'll want a new Netscape process,
> not just a new window.
I understand the problem, but still you can raise another copy of
netscape by executing `${PREFIX}/bin/netscape.run'. (Now I got the
feeling that I should document it somewhere)
Therefore I'd presume we could share an understanding that the issue
comes down to which behavior should be the default, and that fitting
our default behavior to that of MacOS, Windows and Linux wouldn't be a
bad choice in this case.
Now many applications invoke `netscape' as the default HTML viewer,
quicker display would be better for most people in most cases, IMHO.
If you yet think there should be a way to change the default behavior,
I'm willing to add a check of an environment variable or something to
the wrapper. :-)
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