Use localized start pages

[Jonh Wendell]

Firefox should use localized start pages, when installing any mozilla-firefox-locale-* package.

Investigating my package (mozilla-firefox-locale-pt-br), i figure out what must be changed.

The following steps i did in my machine with pt-br locale:

You need to edit locale/browser-region/region.properties file (inside pt-BR.jar) and add the following line at the end of it:

browser.startup.homepage=file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/locales-ubuntu/index-pt_BR.html

The same can be done with all firefox locales.

This bug report was born from a discussion at bug 65223.

I hope this can be verified for edgy, once the people expect to see a "Welcome to Ubuntu" page in their languages.

Thanks.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Ian, any idea about this one?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This worked for dapper, and in fact, it's just a small fix to the homepage adjustment script to make it work again:

--- mozilla-firefox-locale-all-2.0~rc3/debian/changelog
+++ mozilla-firefox-locale-all-2.0~rc3/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+mozilla-firefox-locale-all (2.0~rc3-2) edgy; urgency=low
+
+ * debian/adjust-homepage.pl: Append browser.startup.homepage if the XPI does
+ not have any home page setting at all (none of the current XPIs have).
+ Repairs correct localized start page. Closes: LP#66977
+
+ -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:27:47 +0200
+
 mozilla-firefox-locale-all (2.0~rc3-1) edgy; urgency=low

   * Update XPIs for Firefox 2.0 RC3.
--- mozilla-firefox-locale-all-2.0~rc3/debian/adjust-homepage.pl
+++ mozilla-firefox-locale-all-2.0~rc3/debian/adjust-homepage.pl
@@ -28 +28,2 @@
-, $1.'='.$starturl ,xe;
+, $1.'='.$starturl ,xe or
+ print "$_\nbrowser.startup.homepage=$starturl\n";

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Explanation of the patch for RMs: the bit you see is the last part of a sed expression. The full code reads:

s,^ (
    homePageDefault |
    browser\.startup\.homepage |
    browser\.throbber\.url |
    startup\.homepage_override_url
    ) \= .*
, $1.'='.$starturl ,xe or
    print "$_\nbrowser.startup.homepage=$starturl\n";

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fix me harder, it's a perl -pi script, and the previous patch messes it up.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

minimized delta, with this hack it works fine as well.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 mozilla-firefox-locale-all (2.0~rc3-2) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/adjust-homepage.pl: Append browser.startup.homepage if the XPI does
     not have any home page setting at all (none of the current XPIs have).
     Closes: LP#66977