Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:56:23 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: nik@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/netscape4-communicator Makefile ports/japanese/netscape4-communicator/pkg PLIST ports/japanese/netscape47-communicator/pkg PLIST ports/korean/netscape4-communicator/pkg PLIST ports/korean/netscape4-navigator/pkg PLIST ports/korean/netscape47-communicator/pkg PLIST ... Message-ID: <861z3c5ks8.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Tue, 9 May 2000 00:18:03 %2B0100" <20000509001803.A25500@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200005081920.MAA53910@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000508224253.A13543@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <863dns63vi.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000509001803.A25500@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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At Tue, 9 May 2000 00:18:03 +0100,
Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Yes. I'd prefer to see the defaults reversed as well. I mean, we don't
> do this sort of thing for Emacs, which can behave the same way.
A bit diffecrent from Emacs case:
> > Now many applications invoke `netscape' as the default HTML viewer,
> > quicker display would be better for most people in most cases, IMHO.
You know, no external programs call Emacs generally, and no other OS
enable emacsserv/emacsclient or gnuserv/gnuclient by default.
> > Therefore I'd presume we could share an understanding that the issue
> > comes down to which behavior should be the default, and that fitting
> > our default behavior to that of MacOS, Windows and Linux wouldn't be a
> > bad choice in this case.
>
> How is it the default Linux behaviour? Does Netscape/linux not check
> for the PID file, or is it just that RedHat and co. provide this sort of
> wrapper as a default.
As far as I know, at least Debian, RedHat, Turbo and their derivatives
provide this kind of wrapper and their default behavior is just open a
new window if already a netscape is running.
> > If you yet think there should be a way to change the default behavior,
> > I'm willing to add a check of an environment variable or something to
> > the wrapper. :-)
>
> That would be a good idea.
What would you think is a proper name for it? NETSCAPE_NO_REMOTE?
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