[gentoo-dev] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! A while back, I discovered that mozilla-launcher is causing problems, when the URL contains a , (comma); eg. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923,00.html In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] loaded. Instead of http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923,00.html it would load http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923. Reason is, that firefox executes mozilla-launcher which will eventually run mozilla-xremote-client

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:02:25 +0100, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with that is, that openURL accepts two parameters and they are seperated with a ,. So it sees two parameters: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923 and 00.html - 00.html is not a valid parameter,

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Aron Griffis
Matthew Kennedy wrote: [Mon Nov 13 2006, 10:05:23AM EST] I'd be interested to hear what its purpose is exactly. All of the reasons are primarily historical, and I haven't kept track of which still apply and which don't: - separate distribution of the launcher script from the program so that

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:17:46 -0700, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/13/06, Thomas de Grenier de Latour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Both of the following requests are equivalent: http://foo.bar/param-1,param-2%2Cwith%2Ccommas,param-3