Re: garnome-2.10.1: firefox configuration needs work...

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

I understand that there is a plethora of issues surrounding printing on
linux systems. And... I like your idea of a pre-GARNOME setup sanity
check. There is some of that in the GARNOME README. More would be better
still. Or... Maybe a README-FIRST file would be a good place for a
sanity check list. 

"We" hope that [rational] people will actually read the GARNOME README
before starting the build.  Given my life experiences, I am not
optimistic.  Still, hope springs eternal...

Anyway... The printing problem with firefox, and by extension epiphany,
results from certain options being disabled in the mozconfig-firefox
file, specifically

	--disable-print
	--disable-postscript

Some of the other "disable" options in the original mozconfig-firefox
file appear to be redundant.

For what it's worth, the mozconfig-firefox file I posted to the list is
a simple variant of the configuration file that comes with the RedHat
Fedora-3 SRPM.

-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:59 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 20:30 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > As configured in garnome-2.10.1, firefox-1.0.3 does not print. 
> 
> That's a known issue.
> 
> Printing doesn't work on a number of distributions (stack of bugs going
> back some years that probably needs re-reviewing) -- so rather than
> having a whole lot of users of different platforms complain about it, I
> figured it was safer to turn it off.
> 
> Eventually, this would be the sort of thing i'd like to have a
> 'pre-GARNOME-setup' check for, that basically says:
> 
> * 'does your distribution have a sane compiler'
> * 'does your distribution have a sane build environment'
> * 'is your distribution {!= Linux/X86/X86-64/even relatively recent}'
> and:
> * 'are you trying to build on SuSE'
> 
> and turn various options we currently use as default on/off or use extra
> patches to make people on the more broken distributions happier.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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