Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: ANN: Pan 0.100 "Hey, I like this. Early Nothing!"

[Kevin Brammer]

On 6/19/06, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Kevin Brammer" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted
> below, on  Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:36:02 -1000:
>
> > Thanks for the latest release Charles.  :)
> >
> > Whenever I build these betas, I get a warning about not being able to
> > find libgnome.  What does  libgnome provide the application?  Should I
> > get it?
>
> If GNOME is installed, PAN uses its browser prefs (which it reads using
> libgnome). If it's not, it uses the $BROWSER environmental variable.
>
> I initially merged (Gentoo-speak for installed) libgnome here, as the
> Gentoo ebuild for 0.92 (which I initially copied, they don't keep up to
> the latest but they had 0.92 and 0.94 and a rename to the current version
> is normally all that's required to get it, unless you want to customize
> it...) had it listed in deps.
>
> However, I'm a KDE user not a GNOME user, and I don't have the rest of
> GNOME merged, so there wasn't a GUI way to set the browser pref anyway.
> I could have dug thru a bunch of documentation I suppose, and figured out
> how and in what file to put the setting, but it was MUCH easier just to
> unmerge libgnome and set the $BROWSER variable as appropriate.

Thanks Duncan,

I too was a KDE user so I never really had any gnome-ish libraries
installed.  PAN is one of the only reasons I have what I have.  :)
Now I'm pretty much fluxbox only.

Kevin