Re: gnome_url_show problems



On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:56, Frank Worsley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 08:22, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 22:41, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> >> > Do you have gimp installed?  My gnome-terminal was opening up Image
> >> URLs
> >> > with gimp.  (freaked me out..)
> >>
> >> There was some changes to how show_url works. We removed the special
> >> setting for http urls, and instead we look at the type of the file the
> >> URL points to, and pick an application that can handle the
> >> mimetype/file.
> >
> > yes please re-implement http method - on my system (all up to date cvs),
> > every url hangs evolution.
> 
> You can do this yourself using the File Types control panel. Just add a
> 'http' Internet Service and enable it. Any app that uses url_show with an
> http url will now open in the url handler you setup there. You might also
> want to define other handlers like https, ftp and mailto.

fraid not - this is by gconf key
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command=epiphany %s

no difference


> Also note that if there is no special service defined, then url_show will
> look up the file type and its default application and then open the file
> using that default. To change the default use the control panel or
> right-click on a file of that type in Nautilus and choose 'Open->With' to
> pick a new default application. That's the reason the gnome-terminal
> opened image urls with gimp, since that was the default application.
> 
> It would be nice to add a url_show variation that lets an app pick between
> using the default application or the default viewer. For the terminal the
> default viewer would probably make more sense.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Frank
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