242654 - installed-chrome, contents.rdf, why is it so hard to start writing a XUL application?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Richard Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031215 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3

I'm an experienced programmer who's been attempting to start writing a XUL
application for several days now.  I cannot get Mozilla to recognize a "chrome:"
URL pointing to my trivial application, in spite of having modified
installed-chrome.txt and contents.rdf endlessly and restarted Mozilla probably
a hundred times.

Why do I need to frig with files in the root owned installation directory in
order to write a trivial program?  It's like I wanted to write a Perl program
and I had to become root and modify global files under /usr/lib/perl5.

More on this here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&threadm=c796pm%249o32%40ripley.netscape.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26group%3Dnetscape.public.dev.xul


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The new chrome manifests make this much easier:

http://developer-test.mozilla.org/en/docs/Chrome_Registration