Re: What does --with-thunderbird option do in configure?

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 20:06 -0400, Abbas Faiq wrote:
> I was under the impression that beagle did not search Thunderbird 
> email/address book. 

It doesn't.  See below.

> Then I noticed the following as one of the configure 
> options:
> 
> --with-mozilla[=mozilla|firefox|thunderbird]
>                           Whether to use mozilla, firefox or thunderbird
> 
> so I went ahead and used "--with-firefox --with-thunderbird" as options 
> for ./autogen.

Note that the option is actually "--with-mozilla=firefox" or
"--with-mozilla=thunderbird".  This just tells Beagle from where to get
the gecko rendering engine, which is what Best uses to display its UI.

> Also, how do I get Best to put the right icons on the search results - 
> Word icon for .doc, Excel for .xls, Star office/Open Office for .sxw etc?

It should do it automatically.  It extracts the icons using gnome-vfs.
Are the right icons shown in Nautilus?

Joe