On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:16:19PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Nicholas Riley wrote: > > 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?
No conspiracy here. Apple just hasn't (yet?) ported the Internet control panel to Mac OS X for some strange reason. It's very modern code as it came out with 8.5, and should not be hard to Carbonize, but I imagine one reason it's not been ported is that it doesn't fit in System Preferences, which is a Cocoa app. > > 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. Isn't there a Mac port of gvim? I use the Carbonized Emacs and it's quite nice. -- =Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley> Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
