Re: Is there someone working on a gnome_help_display replacement?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:45 +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> I made this little program to do some testing (and to learn C so sorry
> for any programming errors)
> 
> ./gnome-uri-opener "mailto:foo somewhere com"
> ./gnome-uri-opener "http://www.gnome.org";
> 
> This command will open the default program that handles the uri.
> 
> cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 gconf-2.0` gnome-uri-opener.c -o
> gnome-uri-opener

You might like to know that there is a gnome-open command that does
just this.  Of course, writing utilities like this is a good learning
experience all the same.  So keep on keeping on. :)

If you're really interested in the whole launching help thing, and how
we can do it more cleverly and more cross-desktop-ly, I have plenty of
ideas (some of which might suck), but I need more people playing with
this stuff to accomplish anything anytime soon.

--
Shaun