21674 - need to override the mozilla mailnews start page in the commericial build

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P1)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem.  It
was known there as bug #380280
http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=380280
Imported into Bugzilla on 12/13/99 19:58)

endico is about to change the mozilla mail-news start page to be a page on
mozilla.org

we need to make the commercial build have a mail-news start page on netcenter.

this will be our chance to solve this problem of having ns override a mozilla
pref.

------- Additional Comments From alecf  Dec-13-1999 19:55 -------

yay!

Comment 1

[pmock]

Seth,

I logged bug 21713.  Could you read Sol's and Phil comments before marking it as
duplicated of this bug? Thanks.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21713

Comment 2

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*** Bug 21713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[pmock]

Adding Sol's comments from bug 21713

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  1999-12-14 11:46 -------
I'd like for the commercial builds to continue to point to the Netcenter start
page.
     *When we RTM Seamonkey, we will point at a Netcenter start page.
     *We were able to discover a problem with the Netcenter start page in the
past because of the inclusion of the page in Seamonkey commercial builds, and
this data is valuable.
     *The Netcenter start page will be redesigned, and I'm pushing to have the
Netcenter Web page developers take advantage of Seamonkey standards support.

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

yes, that's what this bug is for :) (making the commercial build use the
netcenter start page)

Comment 5

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I've got the fix for this in my tree.  now, the mozilla build has a mailnews
start page and default home page on mozilla.org, and the commercial build has a
mailnews start page and default home page on netscape.com, which is the desired
effect.

after I check in, I'll post details about this to the right newsgroups so if
others need to override prefs in the future, they will know how.

Comment 6

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fixed.

now the commercial build has a default home page and messenger start page on
netscape.com
and mozilla has those on mozilla.org.  to adjust the commericial
tree prefs, edit
ns/modules/libpref/src/init/all-ns.js and
ns/modules/libpref/src/init/mailnews-ns.js

Comment 7

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fixed.

Comment 8

[pmock]

Verified as fixed on win32 and linux using the following builds:
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/2000-01-02-09-M13/sea
monkey32e.exe
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/unix/linux_glibc/2.2/x86/2000-01-02-09-
M13/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/2000-01-02-08-M13/netscap
e5-mac-M13.sea.bin

I verified that modifying the all-ns.js file changes the default home page.  I
verified that modifying the mailnews-ns.js file changes the default startpage
under mail.

Note: Under Mac, modifying these files have no effect. I will log a separate bug
against mac.