51246 - update pref/unix.js

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P5)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

last line of defaults/pref/unix.js:

config("menu.help.item_1.url", "http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/5.0/relnote
s/unix-5.0.html");

that page is non-exsistant... does this config item even exsist?



pref("helpers.global_mime_types_file", "/usr/local/lib/netscape/mime.types");
pref("helpers.global_mailcap_file", "/usr/local/lib/netscape/mailcap");

these should point the the mime.types and mailcap mozilla installs, if it
installs any yet.



pref("mail.default_fcc", "~/nsmail/Sent");
pref("news.default_fcc", "~/nsmail/Sent");

i dont think those are mozilla's mail dir...


see also bug 14352, which calls for update of all.js

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mcafee/akkana, could you fix this? or would know who could?

Comment 2

[Chris McAfee]

removed bogus menu.help.item_1 pref.

global.helper prefs look unused, but notice there are global.private
prefs also.  These might not be used now, but might be used later
so ? leaving them there for now.

Mail pref bugs should go in separate mailnews bug.

Comment 3

[Chris McAfee]

over to sspitzer for look at the two default_fcc prefs (above), we should
close this bug after those two prefs have been looked at.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I believe those mail prefs are still needed by the migration code.

(see nsMessengerMigrator.cpp)

I'll have to debug to make sure, but I think if they user used pop in 4.x, those
prefs are used.

but on the other hand, if they actually *used* pop, the pref would get replaced
with an actual path, so they might not be needed.

I'll figure it out, and then either remove the prefs, or leave them in.

but I won't do either any time soon, not a high priority.

Comment 5

[Aleksey Nogin]

I believe that the correct default location for global_mime_types_file and
global_mailcap_file should be /etc. There is a patch currently being developed
for bug #52441 that uses these settings, so it's probably time to fix this.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

/etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types is the default on some linux distributions,
yes.

On Solaris they are sometimes found in /usr/local/etc/mime.types and
/usr/local/etc/mailcap.

Not sure about others -- the response on n.p.m.unix when I asked was
underwhelming.  This should probably be split into two bugs -- one for the mail
prefs and one for the helper prefs.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There are no more helper app issues here...

Comment 8

[Peter Weilbacher]

There doesn't seem to be a unix.js any more and the questionable prefs mentioned
in this bug have good defaults now. Resolving WFM.