Re: [Passwordsafe-devel] First message

[Philip N. <phi...@gm...>]

On 10/30/06, DK <dk...@ds...> wrote:
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> I see two possible "other"  solutions:
>
> 1. Trawl though the registry and find out exactly where  in the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" tree the "system-wide" default is kept (I think I  know this one) and also check where within the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" the user may  have specified their own particular override (I don't know this one),  or
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> 2. Make it an Option where the user can  specify which program they want to use to "Browse to URL"  (default being IE) - always assuming that the user can find out the full path to  the browser as they may not have installed it in a "standard" location"!   Need to check that if they select/default to IE, it is where it normally is and  not somewhere else!
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> Option 1 would require a lot of  research.
> Option 2 would be easiest but puts the onus on the user  to find and specify the correct program - I obviously prefer this one  ;-)

What about Option 2a: make a radio button with the choices "try to
guess my system default browser" and "use this browser:
[______________________]".

That way, "Power Users" who like to tweak settings can enter a path
(which may not even be the default browser, but perhaps they like to
open links from PasswordSafe in the HotJava browser, for all we
know...), while Joe Average can let PasswordSafe guess for him (in
whichever way you deem appropriate).

Cheers,
-- 
Philip Newton <phi...@gm...>