[haiku-development] Re: Support for Firefox in default SetupEnvironment?

> I am wondering about the support of Firefox in our default
> SetupEnvironment. Currently it reads:
> 
> export LIBRARY_PATH=
>  "%A/lib:$HOME/config/lib:/boot/common/lib:/boot/beos/system/lib"
> export ADDON_PATH=
>   "%A/add-ons:$HOME/config/add-ons:/boot/beos/system/add-ons"
> 
> We could change that to:
> 
> export LIBRARY_PATH=
>   "%A/.:%A/components:%A/lib:$HOME/config/lib:/boot/common/lib:/boot/beos
>      /system/lib"
> export ADDON_PATH=
>   "%A/.:%A/components:%A/add-ons:$HOME/config/add-ons:/boot/beos/system/
>      add-ons"
> 
> ... in order to support Firefox in "native app" mode. Opinions?

Tweaking our SetupEnvironment in order to make one single non-native-friendly 
app to run like a charm sounds quite counter-intuitive to me.
Better make this app behave more like any native ones, no?

> On the other hand, I would have to prepare a package, where the script has
> been removed and firefox-bin renamed to Firefox. In case it works, I might
> as well change the package further and move the components into an
> "add-ons" subfolder. 

+1
I like this way better: improve Firefox/BeZilla beos/haiku "nativeness" 
behavior.

Just my .02 cent, as my recent involvement in Haiku is near zero... Sigh.

Philippe

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