On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:45:18PM +0200, arno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007, à 17:50:35 +0200, Mike a écrit : > > > > Actually, it *does* allow global extensions, but applications embedding > > libxul or using xulrunner have to initialize the extensions manager by > > themselves in order to get these extensions enabled. This is something that > > is, unfortunately, not very likely to change. > > What I meant here is you can use global extension for some applications, but > not > for xulrunner globally. ie: an extension has to provide an install.rdf > referencing all xulrunner application it works with. > > So if you have a xulrunner extension, and you create a new application, you > must: > - enable extension manager (easy: can be done in the application itself) > - change something in extension install.rdf (difficult: you must modify > another > debian package). That's what I want to avoid here. > > I think it will be easier to avoid that in xulrunner 1.9 (I'm not totally > sure, > but that's what I understand from mozilla bug 299716)
Yes, in this case, the changes scheduled for xulrunner 1.9 might be helpful. > > Note having added stuff in the chrome without extensions recently, I can't > > tell you if it will be necessary to go through a registration phase, but > > I think putting a chrome.manifest file alongside should be enough. > > adding a .jar and a manifest in /usr/share/xulrunner/chrome/ seems to work > fine. > That's the way we do things in my paid job. But if you want to provide > a components/ directory, you have to provide a real extension - otherwise, > the > component(s) may not be reregistered after modifications. You can add the component(s) in /usr/lib/xulrunner/components and touch the /usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg file. The new component(s) will be autoregistered at application startup. (Works the same with removed components). See the xulrunner-gnome-support package. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
