David Hallowell wrote:
>
> Daniel Veditz wrote:
>
> >
> > There is no uninstall for XPInstalled packages; it would be a nice feature
> >
> > to have.
> >
> Back in the distant past the mozilla preferences dialog used to have a
> space for a list of installed packages which would be selectable and
> able to be installed via an uninstall button.
>
> Of course this didn't work so was removed from the preferences before we
> hit the betas but I'm mentioning it because this is how I believe this
> is the way a package uninstall feature should eventually be implemented.
> It makes it easy for a user to find and uninstall a package.
That's the way I wanted it to work. The prefs pane was originally designed
based on the similar pane in Communicator 4.5+, but as you said removed
because the underlying feature was never implemented.
> A similar uninstallation feature should be offered for themes, in the
> themes preference there should be an uninstall theme option next to the
> apply theme button.
This is more likely to be done sooner than the general uninstall; it's much
simpler. See bug 58706
-Dan Veditz
