Dear Sam, I recognise number of problems with run-time browser detection.
I believe it's not good to expect users to complain that they can choose browser that is not installed. Not having a browser in drop-down list may be inconvenient for those who may choose to configure favourite browser in Liferea before installing it. Also presence of other browsers in list may inspire people to try something new. If you still think that run-time detection of available browsers is a good idea then consider that you will have to maintain hardcoded list of valid browsers as well (unless you figure out how to detect all available browsers on run-time). And in some cases it won't work as the list of valid browsers may vary on different architectures and suites. That's an additional maintenance burden for very little or no benefit. Also we don't want to diverge from upstream and maintain patches that upstream is not considering useful. Convincing upstream will be difficult due to already mentioned maintenance burden. Besides accurate detection of valid browsers is probably a distro-specific task. As you can see implementing what you want is more difficult than it appears but also unnecessary. Your time would be much better spent if you could help with more important issues: at the moment we have over 50 bugs reported for Liferea. Thank you. Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
