[rox-devel] Re: ROX-Session/browsers

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:37:21 -0200, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:

> I just looked at the ROX-Session/browsers script:
> 
> for x in $search; do
>   browser=$x/rox.sourceforge.net/handlers/BROWSER
>   #echo Looking for $browser
>   if [ -x "$browser" ]; then
>     exec "$browser" "$@"
>   fi
> done
> 
> Is this "/handlers/BROWSER" thing standard? I've never heard of it...
> How is this set?

Someone needs to write a configuration applet for it ("Drag a browser
here")... I never got around to it.

> One could use rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types/text_html
> instead, or at least include that in the test.

Maybe. The feature of BROWSER is that it handles URLs; if you've got HTML
files to open in Edit, you wouldn't want that used as your browser.
Therefore it would be a last resort, only used if you don't have *any*
browser installed (which is incredibly unlikely these days ;-)

> Isn't there some freedesktop standard for setting handlers? if so we
> should use it...

The standard is to use $BROWSER. This just provides a way for ROX users to
configure it without logging out and back in again. I think doing it this
way may have been suggested on freedesktop.org, but until they come up
with a shared configuration system, they can't really say where anything
should be stored ;-)


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