Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 00:18:03 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org> Cc: nik@freebsd.org, 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: <20000509001803.A25500@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <863dns63vi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org>; from knu@idaemons.org on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 08:04:01AM %2B0900 References: <200005081920.MAA53910@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000508224253.A13543@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <863dns63vi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org>
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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 08:04:01AM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:
> > 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)
Yes. I'd prefer to see the defaults reversed as well. I mean, we don't
do this sort of thing for Emacs, which can behave the same way.
> 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.
How is it the default Linux behaviour? Does Netscape/linux not check
for the PID file, or is it just that RedHat and co. provide this sort of
wrapper as a default.
> 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. :-)
That would be a good idea.
N
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