Re: three open issues for gnome

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> writes:
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> > I'm fairly sure all the core GNOME apps use ESD.  If not, I'm sure there
> > is support for a pseudo /dev/dsp device for ESD.  Is it part of ESD
> > core, or a non-standard add-on?
> >    
>
> Sure, the gnome apps use esd...but there's more than gnome.  I don't
> know of any pseudo /dev/dsp device.  Can you give me pointers?  It's
> not in the standard Debian version AFAICT.
>
>  
>
> > gnome-moz-remote shouldn't be used by modern applications.  The
> > applications should be using the GNOME URL handlers, which you should
> > configure for the web-browser of your choice.  Non-GNOME applications
> > should make use of the BROWSER environment variable... if not, you
> > should e-mail the application authors and tell them their app is broken;
> > it doesn't follow the "standard way of doing things."
> >    
>
> Hoever, gnome-moz-remote doesn't have a way of running a browser on a
> different machine if you are coming in via ssh -X.  
>  
True.  But if you start netscape/mozilla on your local machine first, 
gnome-moz-remote will tell that instance to display new URLs (provided 
they aren't file:// urls, in which case it will only allow a local 
mozilla/netscape to display them).

James.

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