RFC: Fix for PR1260

[Deepak Bhole]

* Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> [2013-01-21 09:55]:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > * Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> [2013-01-18 15:35]:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > This patch fixes PR1260: IcedTea-Web should not rely on GTK
> > > > 
> > > > ChangeLog:
> > > > 2013-01-16  Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>
> > > > 
> > > >     PR1260: IcedTea-Web should not rely on GTK
> > > >     * Makefile.am: Remove GTK includes and links
> > > >     * acinclude.m4: Remove check for GTK libs
> > > >     * plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaJavaRequestProcessor.h: Removed
> > > >     gtk.h
> > > >     include
> > > >     and added unistd include (for usleep) which gtk.h brought in
> > > >     before
> > > >     * plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc: Remove GTK dialog
> > > >     shown
> > > >     when java
> > > >     is not found
> > > >     * plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.h: Removed gtk.h include
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > OK for HEAD and 1.3? 1.2 currently links against GTK2 only, and
> > > > since
> > > > there
> > > > have been no requests for GTK3 there, I think we should leave it
> > > > alone.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Deepak
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > So what happens now when Java isn't found?  Most users running a
> > > browser
> > > aren't going to see a message printed to stderr, are they?
> > 
> > Right, not on stderr. It will still be logged into ~/.xsession-errors
> > though.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Deepak
> > 
> > > --
> > > Andrew :)
> > > 
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> 
> Doesn't the browser provide a way of passing messages to the user?
> 

Not that I am aware of. We do send a error back during initialization to
the browser, but that return code has no option to attach a message or
to show anything to the user via a dialog.

If anyone knows of a way to do it via NPAPI though (browser agnostic), I
am definitely +1 for it.

Cheers,
Deepak

> I doubt most novice users are going to look in ~/.xsession-errors either.
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> Andrew :)
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