Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox
To: None <pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 11/02/2007 10:10:52
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
>> Exactly. Sorry - I should have made that clear in my initial
>> email. Given that... any objections?
>
> Not really, but I don't think that hard coding firefox here is a good idea.
> You leave out other browsers.
Any implementation should provide options on this.
>>>> There should be a way to disable this support, so people who just want
>>>> to read mails and not to bother with links in it will not be caught by
>>>> starting a browser.
>
> And what about this part?
They only see any difference if they click a link. The principle
of least surprise would suggest that when most users click a link
they want the link to open.
Note - whatever is done would be an option in options.mk, the
issue is whether to enable it by default.
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