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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: kmozilla patches

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 20:48:47 -0500
> Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here are the patches needed to get the kmozilla code to work again. Note
>> that it was also quite buggy in its previous life and none of those
>> previous bugs have been looked at yet. These patches provide the minimum
>> to get the code compilable and displaying webpages again.
>>
>> So here is a list of known issues:
>> - buttons like back, forward do not work
>> - progress indication seems broken
>> - some webpages load and then display a white screen
>
> I forgot to add.
> It's necessary for the kmozilla binary to see two environment variables
> as well.
> First of all, it needs to find its libraries and also it needs to know
> the location of the Mozilla environment it should use. Something like
> this should work:
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.23/
> export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.23/
> konqueror
> (and open a site and choose kmozilla as the viewer)
>
> Maybe a kcontrol panel could be added at some point that allows choosing
> the Mozilla environment to use.
>

OK, the patches are in SVN as of revision 1256724.  The build system has
not yet been fixed, but will be in the (near) future.

Tim