49023 - Files missing from Netscape tarball hamper usage

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 45229

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect, P3)

Description

[dylang]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17pre16 i586)
BuildID:    2000081420

The Linux Mozilla build is missing files!  If you untar mozilla in a clean
directory and run it, you will find that you cannot switch GUI themes at all.  I
was curious as to why this was, and compared it to the directory structure of my
Windows install (which allows me to switch themes fine).  I solved it by copying
the all-skins.rdf to the chrome directory.  Clearly the problem needs to be
fixed by carefully checking that each build is sent out with the proper files.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Grab Mozilla
2.  Untar
3.  Notice how you can't change themes :)

Actual Results:  I couldn't change themes!

Expected Results:  I should've seen a list of themes, and been able to change
between them.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

exactly which tarball did you download? (Filename and full size, please.)
I don't see the error you describe in

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2000-08-14-20-M18/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
(filesize 7960374)

Comment 2

[dylang]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-talkback.tar.gz

No themes because of lack of the proper rdf in it :-(  Ditto for the M17
package.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over to installer as a guess, doesn't look like a prefs bug.

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

tarball- does not use installer- pass to build/config

Comment 5

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

We package all the files in dist, so the build system needs to have something
added to it to copy this file to the correct location in dist, bumping over to
themes.

Comment 6

[David Krause]

The all-skins.rdf is not supposed to be distributed.  It is created on startup
during the first run of mozilla.  But if your not root this will not work.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45229 ***

Comment 7

[Jon Granrose]

verified dup.