On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Barry Smith wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > > >> Not everyone lives in a cave and uses the pony-express to > > > communicate. Are really most PETSc users and developers complete > > > troglodytes? > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > Well - most don't have mailto: configured from their web browser > > > > > > > > Huh? Next you’ll tell me that people don’t have http://…. > > > configured for their web browsers. Still using Archie and Veronica > for > > > searches I guess. > > > > > > > > > > If you are on Mac using Safari for web and Apple Mail for e-mail - > > > then you are all set. > > > > > > However - if you use safari for web - and gmail [or any other mail > > > client] for e-mail - then you have to go through extra steps. > > > > > > Or you can use Chrome and Stop the Madness. > > chrome also defaults to the 'default mailer' for your desktop. > ? I just tried it and Chrome uses GMail. I have not configured anything. Matt > i.e on most linuxes - 'evolution' is set as the default mailer for > gnome [perhaps kmail for kde etc.]. Unless you change this setting to > something else - chrome will attempt to spwan evolution/kmail. > > Since 'mailto' requires extra config for setting users prefered mail > client - I assert most users don't have this configured. > [perhaps its a trival config for most common e-mail clients] > > Folks on this list can easily give feedback and tell us if thier > browser is configured already for mailto: for their prefrered e-mail > client or not. > > http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/tmp/VecView.html > > To start off - mine isn't. [yes I live in a cave] > > Satish > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
