[Gaim-devel] some browser patches

[Ray S. <hal...@ha...>]

Attached are two patches.
One of the patches hides browsers that arent installed from the 
preferences menu.  It also adds a Set and Reset button to the Manual 
browser entry, so that the entry can be validated, too.

The other patch switches browser.c over to the g_spawn_* api, adds error 
messages, and fixes a bug that was preventing the gaim interface from 
redrawing under certain situations if Netscape is the configured 
browser.  Note I cant get netscape 4.x to work on my computer, so I 
wasnt able to test it with that browser (and there is some pretty 
complicated code for talking to that browser).

Another issue.  It seems that browser.c currently uses some code that is 
from netscape/jwz and the original code specifies that the copyright and 
permission notice must remain in tact.  browser.c has the copyright 
notice, but it doesnt have the permission notice.  Furthermore, I dont 
think it could because it conflicts with the gpl.

Also, the offending code has to jump through some hoops to coexist with 
Gtk+ and it really is quite ugly.

I think it would be better to just bundle a helper program with gaim and 
use that if netscape is installed (maybe use the program that the code 
was taken from).  That solves the GPL issue and the asthetics issue.

--Ray Strode