On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Nicholas Riley wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:44:02PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: > > 1. How do I completely excise MSIE from my system. After comparing it > > with the choices of NetScape, Mozilla, and Omniweb, lynx, w3m, I've > > decided to go with the MacOSX Mozilla? I can't seem to even find > > launch services on my system. I'll lose the ability to run a few > > games on java dependent web sites -- which is MSIE's only plus. > > Don't do this. MSIE is the only way to edit certain Internet Config > preferences because Apple didn't see fit to include decent editing > functionality with Mac OS X, similar to that provided by the Internet > Config application, and the Internet control panel in Mac OS 8.5 and > later.
So let me get this straight. Not only is IE a quote-unquote "fundamental compnent" of Windows, but it's also a fundamental component of MacOSX? Oy vey, what I wouldn't give for a Justice Department with some fangs... > > 2. Can I set this so that it will use other applications besides the > > OS X defaults? Can I make it start up X-windows and chose an X > > application? OS X already sort of does this for classic apps. > > Not really. LaunchServices sends Apple events to a browser, and X > Window applications don't (perhaps can't, either) respond to Apple > events. > > You could certainly write a bridge application if you're determined to > use an X11 browser, but I haven't found much to recommend any of them > over the available Mac native browsers. Still, this is a useful idea more broadly. I would love to have Gvim as my global default text editor/viewer, but it's currently only an X11 app and I can't get it to work that way. (Not that I've tried *that* hard, but I couldn't see any way to get to that point so I haven't spent much time with the issue.) Likewise I'd like to be able to set Pine or Mutt as my default email application, but the system doesn't seem to eager to let me set a console based application for that. So I think a general purpose mechanism for allowing X & console based apps to be defaults for certain types of actions would be a good thing, and web access would not be the only area that could benefit from this kind of functionality. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
