Bug 140765 - [Intro] Welcome page is not displayed properly.
Summary: [Intro] Welcome page is not displayed properly.
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-GTK
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Curtis d'Entremont CLA
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Reported: 2006-05-09 06:42 EDT by Claudio Nieder CLA
Modified: 2006-05-10 14:58 EDT (History)
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Description Claudio Nieder CLA 2006-05-09 06:42:28 EDT 
I see the same Problem reported in Bug#139221 with Eclipse 3.2RC3 on Linux. I get a screen similar to the one in the screenshot. Furthermore when I click on the "Go to the Workbench" link firefox is started with the URL http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/switchToLaunchBar instead of going to the workbench.
Comment 1 Dejan Glozic CLA 2006-05-09 07:46:47 EDT 
Curtis, can you investigate? Welcome shows correctly on our Linux machines - what is different here?

FYI, the fix in RC2 I made for local URLs is in the classes BundleUtil in both *.ui.intro and *.ui.intro.universal, method 'toExternalForm'. To short-cirtuit it, just return 'localURL.toExternalForm()' at the top of the method.
Comment 2 Curtis d'Entremont CLA 2006-05-09 10:12:56 EDT 
I was unable to reproduce on several linux machines including SuSE SLES 9 and Redhat AS 3. I notice you're using firefox - do you also have mozilla installed? Can you run through these instructions for setting up the embedded browser in SWT and see if it there was something missing on your setup?

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux

Also, which distribution/version are you using?
Comment 3 Claudio Nieder CLA 2006-05-10 14:36:53 EDT 
My Linux is Debian (testing).

I have no MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable set. Setting this
variable to /usr/lib/firefox fixes this bug.

Sorry to have bothered you with this, but I didn't suspect a
misconfiguration on my side, as the previous release I used, the 3.2RC1
did not require MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to be set for correct operation.
Comment 4 Curtis d'Entremont CLA 2006-05-10 14:58:14 EDT 
Thanks Claudio. I believe the env variable has been required for a long time, but your browser appeared to work until now without it (by some stroke of luck?). Since you are not the first to report browser problems, I added an entry to the 3.2 release notes, and pointed to the SWT faq.