48235 - Skins don't appear on preferences when Mozilla is saved in read-only directory

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42184

(Core Graveyard :: Skinability, defect, P3)

Description

[Jens-Uwe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000807
BuildID:    2000080712

skins don't work, when Mozilla is installed in a read only directory (eg /opt or
/usr). Under Edit->preferences->appearence->themes there are no modern and
classic skin to choose from, even if they are installed.
When Mozilla is installed in a directory, where the user can write to (eg in
somewhere in his home directory) every thing is fine.

Thats ugly from a unix point of view, since there usually all programs are
installed in a read only directory.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Mozilla into /opt/package
2.start it as none root
3.go to edit->preferences->appearance->themes


Actual Results:  there should be no skins to choose from

Expected Results:  there should be skins ;-)

Comment 1

[Stephen Koren]

I can't repro on 080908 Win98. This may just be the bug in which the skins don't
appear in the preferences the first time you launch Mozilla. Someone with Linux,
please try and repro.

Comment 2

[G. Todd]

Reproduced this exactly as described on Liunx 2000080910

Comment 3

[Stephen Koren]

I can't get this when I make my Mozilla directory read-only in Win98. However, I
will confirm per G. Todd's comment.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating component and setting defualt owner.

Comment 5

[hangas]

Sending to skinability

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Run once with write access to register chrome. Duplicate of bug 42184

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42184 ***

Comment 7

[David Krause]

verified