In <news:f7cdnxxzbk0gmtpwnz2dnuvz_o5i4...@mozilla.org>, Leonidas Jones <leonidasjo...@netscape.net> wrote:
> Hartmut Figge wrote: > > David E. Ross: > > > >> Bug #214675 proposes to delete the Profile Manager. > >> It is being extensively discussed at mozilla.dev.planning. > I've read through the discussion. I think, as I am reading it, there > will not be a removal of Profile Manager as we know it, at least not > without a workable alternative, hopefully not command line. I agree with you. The comment that set off the thread is B. Smedburg's comment <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214675#c40>: [patch to] Remove profile manager and named profile support, rev. 1 I want to do this for the 1.9.3 cycle. This removes a fair bit of complexity from nsAppRunner.cpp and related code. This will help make it possible to refactor all our startup code (XPCOM and toolkit) into a single place. It will also make it possible to re-add a well-designed profile system like dmills wants to do for Weave integration that doesn't require application restart. And in the thread at m.d.planning, he says: I believe in having UI so that SUMO can solve end-user problems effectively. There's also M. Beltzner's post in the thread saying: We obviously won't ship a product to users that regresses important functionality that our support teams rely on (as Cheng indicated), but I think we can ship nightly and development builds without a profile manager for a while as long as we correctly document how to achieve the same functionality with command line arguments. As I read it, they may remove the PM GUI for a while, while refactoring the startup stuff goes on. That would affect the nightlies for all toolkit apps during that time. But before anything is released to end-users, there would be GUI for everything the PM currently does; in fact, it looks like there's a chance it would be greatly improved (and possibly integrated with the safe-mode GUI). -- »Q« /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mail X <http://asciiribbon.org/> / \ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
