On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 22:03, Chris Waters wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:53:26PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > > > My take on the matter is that Netscape is *not* part of a standard > > > Debian system. [...] > > > While I don't use Netscape often, it is sometimes necessary as galeon and > > mozilla can't always handle some on-line commerce sites. > > By that argument, we "need" to make Netscape a part of a standard Debian > system. But it's not free software, so we're not going to. > > Furthermore, to take that logic a little further: many sites require > IE. It is, in theory, possible to run IE under wine. So, we should > really have an IE button instead of a Netscape button, yes? > > > I'm guessing that there are enough people who, if they don't use netscape > > occasionally, use it all the time, and that the Netscape item should remain. > > Remain where? IT'S NOT PART OF DEBIAN! > > Yes, we make a package available, but it's not on our CDs, and it > takes at least a moderate amount of expertise to install it. If you > have that much expertise, you should have enough to ADD YOUR OWN > LAUNCHER. Especially since the Netscape packages support the Debian > menu system, so Netscape will already be in the menus if you need it. No need to get angry, there's a "try-run" feature in the .desktop files, we have some such .desktop files for rxvt and xterm for example. If the program isn't there, it doesn't show up in the menu, easy. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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