Bug 82331
Summary: | xchat should default to htmlview | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> | ||||
Component: | xchat | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 9 | CC: | mitr | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | EasyFix | ||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | 2.0.7-4 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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Last Closed: | 2004-03-05 20:59:50 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Panu Matilainen
2003-01-21 12:25:40 UTC
Created attachment 89460 [details]
Make xchat use htmlview by default
Attached patch does it for english .. but then there are the translations for
which this should be done too :( If you think this would be a good thing I
suppose I can do the patch for the translations as well.
I don't disagree with you about making htmlview part of the xchat browser menu, and in fact making it the first choice on the menu. I have polled a few people to see what their opinions were first before presenting my own, and have had some mixed results. Most people like the idea of putting htmlview on the menu as "Default web browser" or just "Web Browser", but most of the people I've talked to like to be able to fire up a URL in an alternate browser as well, in case a link doesn't work in their default browser for example. The only way I can see making a fair decision would be to have a sort of slashdot poll with 3 or 4 options to choose from. That would be the fairest approach, but unfortunately the most time consuming as well. I'm going to leave it for now until I get more feedback from people first, so that I'm doing what I believe that most users want, and not my own personal preference, or any one single user's preference. I'll update the report when I'm ready to make the changes. I'd be perfectly happy with just having htmlview (described as Default browser, Web browser.. whatever) as the first entry in the menu. After that, have every browser in the world listed in the main menu (or perhaps preferably in submenus), I don't care :) IMO, switching browsers to work-around bugs is (should be) quite uncommon. In that case, you can always use X PRIMARY selection and just paste the URL. Quite often I open up a URL in xchat in mozilla and it wont work properly. Opening it up in konqueror often results in it working. Many people do this. At any rate, there is no point debating it here. That just wastes time. I will add htmlview to the top of the menu sometime. What remains on the rest of the menu and in what order will be determined at a later date. Ok, I've decided that while various people (such as myself even), will undoubtedly prefer to have a selection of web browsers to choose from, that the confusion a brand new user might face when using the application, and seeing so many options, is bad for user friendliness. Also, the general case is indeed probably that the majority of users will be just fine with a single default setting, so changing it to have one setting makes it simpler for the general case. Advanced/technical users can simply reconfigure the interface to have whatever other entries they desire, so no real functionality is lost, just the default settings are being changed. I have removed the xchat default menu structure now, and replaced it with a single entry of "Open URL in Web Browser", which uses htmlview. This will be in 2.0.7-4 in rawhide. Thanks for the feedback guys, and for your patience waiting for me to see the light as well. ;o) Update: I've changed this to use gnome-open instead of htmlview for Fedora Core 2. The htmlview patch is still included however, for people who rebuild on older OS releases, and in case I release erratum for older releases. |