Re: [Pan-users] Re: Can a KDE user take a look at this Bug?

[Darren]

Duncan wrote:
 > They say that one advantage of open source is that given the world as an
> audience, all bugs are shallow -- someone will know what's up right away. 
> This one proves the point, as I believe I know /exactly/ what's happening,
> having run into it myself, but believed it to be designed that way (that
> is, a feature).
> 
> I'll put the details on the bug, but the gist is that where pan looks for
> the browser depends on whether it's compiled with or without libgnome. 
> (The 0.107 ebuild makes use of the gnome USE flag to control that,
> according to a bug I filed with Gentoo -- I've not yet merged it.)
> 

It looks like you are 100% correct, a KDE user who compiled from source
had no problems.  Of course this causes other issues if I remove gnome
support for those who use gnome.  Shouldn't Pan failover to using the
BROWSER variable if the gnome libraries are not available at runtime?