DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Fire fox

The abiword.dsl extension has pango and gtk2.0 within it.
So, I wouldn't let that get in the way of making a nice extension.

Open the abiword.dsl in a temp directory, and look in it..
That will give you an idea of how to place the extras, libs, wrappers, and GTK2.0

73
ke4nt

The abiword package was a great help. I have been able to make a .dsl package for firefox 0.9.1 including pango and gtk2.

I could be improved though, since I copied all fonts from abi since I didn't know which ones would be used bij firefox / pango / xft. Therefore, the package became rather big (11.5mb).

I have one question though, maybe someone can help:

I need to execute 'sudo ldconfig' after installing my .dsl files, to make all new libs are found. This is rather inconvenient, shouldn't mydsl-load take care of that? How is this handeled in other packages?

If anyone would like to try / test my .dsl's (firefox 0.9.1 and mplayerplug-in), please let me know! At my box they are running wonderful (except mplayerplug-in won't do full screen properly, probably hardware related...)

See this post about making your wrappers aware of your libs locations...

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....wrapper

See this post about mplayer's unsizeability using our KDrive xservers...

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....mplayer

How about a xine plug-in, since the xine package DOES resize the
screen at your command?

And the current "firefox.tar.gz" weighs in at just under 10MB's, so your
package isn't that much larger than the old 0.8 version!

73
ke4nt

Finally I completed my firefox 0.9.x dsl.

I added a wrapper (/usr/bin/firefox.sh which executes sudo ldconfig and /usr/bin/firefox), and I took the recent 0.9.3 version from Mozilla.org. According to my own experience everything works fine, including icon and menu item. It's size is still about 11mb (including gtk2 libs and fonts).

In case people are interested I would like to submit it to the testing area, but I don't know how to do that. Could you please let me know?

Thanks in advance.

Bye,

Michiel W.
:;):

You can email to ...
extensions[at]damnsmalllinux[dot]org

If your email cannot handle the file size,

Let me know, and I'll send you a temp
user/pass for uploading..

73
ke4nt

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