On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:52:04PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
Yeah, there really doesn't seem any particular reason for the search box
to be there, unless Google was paying us for it to be there or
something.
Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while
retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with
Mozilla. Mozilla gets their money from Google. I don't think we *can* make
it something
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:39 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Fedora gets to build and ship a slightly-modified version of Firefox while
retaining the Firefox name due to a distribution partner agreement with
Mozilla. Mozilla gets their
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change,
and how it would benefit the
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:59 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
Start Page, please be prepared to provide a
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 4:59:27 PM, Matt wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
Start Page, please be prepared to provide a
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
Nor for Mozilla to track its users. There shouldn't be a start page
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:30 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:20:23 -0400,
Al Dunsmuir al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
Nor
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:46:53 -0400,
Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote:
The update page is remote. If you want to disable it, set
startup.homepage_override_url to the empty string. There is also
startup.homepage_welcome_url for the first run of the browser.
Thanks!
--
devel
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:20 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
Please do not ignore that the browser is there for the user to use,
not for Fedora to stream information in spite of the user's wishes.
This is Linux, not some Microsoft (or Apple) we know what is best for
you system.
Al
I
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:05 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
On 08/30/2010 01:52 AM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
So why would the policy apply to the search box on
http://start.fedoraproject.org , which is just meant for users and is
not really a piece of infrastructure?
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote:
3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in
http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one?
NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a Fedora Solution an
2010/8/29 Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote:
3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in
http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one?
NO. And Fedora Project
On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora
users and contributors should be able to avoid using them altogether, I
think that's currently pretty
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora
users and contributors should be able to avoid
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.netwrote:
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/30/2010 01:01 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
search engine on the Fedora start
On 08/30/2010 01:52 AM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
So why would the policy apply to the search box on
http://start.fedoraproject.org , which is just meant for users and is
not really a piece of infrastructure?
--
Matt
Because some people are rather overzealous about
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