gconf settings

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:25:52AM -0700, Brian Thomason wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I sent the following message to Alexander Sack, the Thunderbird
> maintainer, who asked me to forward it here as it may have multiple
> answers and broader appeal:
> 
> We (Linspire) are working with mozDev to create some custom builds of
> Firefox and Thunderbird. One problem MozDev hasn't solved yet is
> enabling the reading of certain system prefs - namely the gconf settings
> for mailto and http handlers in Firefox and Thunderbird respectively. I
> noticed that Debian's builds have this working properly, yet I didn't
> notice any special config options being passed or any settings being
> changed in any of your patches that seems to have caused this. Can you
> shed some light on this?
> 

Sorry for the late answer. 

This feature gets auto detected during build. 

That is, if you have the proper build dependencies installed, this
feature will be enabled automagically.

Play around a bit with installing/not-installing the following -dev
packages:

gconf-2.0
libgnome-2.0
gnome-vfs-2.0

afaik, if you have all of them installed, the gnome component will get
built too. If you just install gconf-2.0 during build only the
'protocol handler through gconf' feature will be built in, iirc.


 - Alexander

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