Re: [Nautilus-list] Galeon, Nautilus, Mozilla must share profile information

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Ian McKellar wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:18:52PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
>
> > Errr . . .no.  Mozilla isn't a gnome project and probably won't ever be. 
> > There is no compelling reason for them to use Gconf.  Mozilla is 
> > intended to be as cross-platform as possible and to run with very 
> > minimal external dependancies.  Yes, Gconf is intended to be used for 
> > purposes outside of gnome as well, but realistically it isn't there.
> >
> > Don't expect them to bend to you.  They have no real reason to do this.
>
> Well, I assume they're picking up the Windows "Internet" control-panel
> settings under Windows and the InternetConfig settings on the Mac. If they
> do that on Windows why wouldn't they do similar things under UNIX - at least
> in the first-time wizard?

Because gnome or Gconf isn't on every single box running UNIX.

-b

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