[petsc-dev] adding Report Typo and Errors link to manual pages

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Barry Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > >>
> > > > >>   Not everyone lives in a cave and uses the pony-express to
> > > communicate. Are really most PETSc users and developers complete
> > > troglodytes?
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > > Well - most don't have mailto: configured from their web browser
> > > >
> > > >    Huh? Next you’ll tell me that people don’t have http://….
> > >  configured for their web browsers.  Still using Archie and Veronica
> for
> > > searches I guess.
> > > >
> > >
> > > If you are on Mac using Safari for web and Apple Mail for e-mail -
> > > then you are all set.
> > >
> > > However - if you use safari for web - and gmail [or any other mail
> > > client] for e-mail - then you have to go through extra steps.
> >
> >
> > Or you can use Chrome and Stop the Madness.
>
> chrome also defaults to the 'default mailer' for your desktop.
>

? I just tried it and Chrome uses GMail. I have not configured anything.

   Matt


> i.e on most linuxes - 'evolution' is set as the default mailer for
> gnome [perhaps kmail for kde etc.]. Unless you change this setting to
> something else - chrome will attempt to spwan evolution/kmail.
>
> Since 'mailto' requires extra config for setting users prefered mail
> client - I assert most users don't have this configured.
> [perhaps its a trival config for most common e-mail clients]
>
> Folks on this list can easily give feedback and tell us if thier
> browser is configured already for mailto: for their prefrered e-mail
> client or not.
>
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/tmp/VecView.html
>
> To start off - mine isn't. [yes I live in a cave]
>
> Satish
>



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