Andrea Borgia said: > Hello. > Since I'm quite new to Debian, what is the rationale behind > netscape-remote?
I believe it is so when/if a user tries to load netscape twice (and many non technical users do when they want to open a new window), it opens a new window instead of tries to load a new process which then puts up a big warning saying "Theres already a .lock file in your .netscape directory be sure ..etc etc.." which can confuse people I suppose. > And why running netscape should open another mozilla > window? most likely because mozilla is mostly coded by netscape engineers and they wanted to maintain a consistant interface to it so they use many of the same command line options available to previous netscape versions. So the script tries to call the command and mozilla happily responds. > Maybe, I say maybe ;-), if I type 'netscape' I want netscape and > not another mozilla window, maybe because I need to test something > specifically with netscape. When I want to load netscape, and ONLY netscape if I have mozilla already running I run netscape directly: /usr/lib/netscape/477/communicator/communicator-smotif.real that, on my system loads it, without any scripts and it works everytime. You don't get the advantages the script may offer I think it does a lot to the enviornment to make netscape more secure and more friendly(been a while since I looked at the script though). I don't use netscape 4.x that often anymore though. > > Am I missing some obvious debian-specific thing or may I rush off to file > a bugreport? I think this is an unintended side effect but I wouldn't consider it a bug, this behavior has been there as long as I can remember, and at least to me, makes sense, even though it can be inconvient at times. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
