Re: winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

[Jeremy White]

> +        "kfmclient exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";

A Gnome user will be offended if you spool up the entire KDE environment
just to launch a URL; a KDE user will be similarly offended by gnome-open.
Further, if I'm a Gnome user, I may have KDE on my system, and kfmclient exec
may work, but it's likely to not be the browser I *really* want used.

The standard that's developing is that you don't invoke a KDE program
unless KDE_FULL_DESKTOP is set and you don't invoke a Gnome session
unless GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is set.

Cheers,

Jeremy

winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

[Hans Leidekker]

On Friday 14 April 2006 15:31, Jeremy White wrote:
> > +        "kfmclient
> > exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";

Have you tested the clients you added? kmail doesn't understand mailto URLs
passed on the command line last I looked.

 -Hans

winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

[Neil Skrypuch]

On Friday, April 14, 2006 11:07, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Friday 14 April 2006 15:31, Jeremy White wrote:
> > > +        "kfmclient
> > > exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";
>
> Have you tested the clients you added? kmail doesn't understand mailto URLs
> passed on the command line last I looked.
>
> -Hans

Yes, I tested all of the items I added, except for gnome-open, which I asked 
someone with Gnome to test for me.

KMail understands mailto:foo(a)bar.net URLs for me at least (tested on KDE 3.5.2 
and KDE 3.4.3). 'kmail mailto:foo(a)bar.net' brings up a new message addressed 
to foo(a)bar.net, as expected.

- Neil

winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

[Neil Skrypuch]

On Friday, April 14, 2006 09:31, Jeremy White wrote:
> > +        "kfmclient
> > exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";
>
> A Gnome user will be offended if you spool up the entire KDE environment
> just to launch a URL; a KDE user will be similarly offended by gnome-open.
> Further, if I'm a Gnome user, I may have KDE on my system, and kfmclient
> exec may work, but it's likely to not be the browser I *really* want used.
>
> The standard that's developing is that you don't invoke a KDE program
> unless KDE_FULL_DESKTOP is set and you don't invoke a Gnome session
> unless GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is set.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy

I had thought about this, though I wasn't aware of any good way of detecting 
KDE/Gnome running. A quick googling shows that it's actually KDE_FULL_SESSION 
though, not KDE_FULL_DESKTOP.

I'll add in this feature and post an updated patch shortly.

- Neil

winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Friday 14 April 2006 9:31 am, Jeremy White wrote:
> The standard that's developing is that you don't invoke a KDE program
> unless KDE_FULL_DESKTOP is set and you don't invoke a Gnome session

IIRC its if KDE_FULL_SESSION==true

winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

[Marcus Meissner]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 08:31:11AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote:
> > +        "kfmclient exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";
>
> A Gnome user will be offended if you spool up the entire KDE environment
> just to launch a URL; a KDE user will be similarly offended by gnome-open.
> Further, if I'm a Gnome user, I may have KDE on my system, and kfmclient exec
> may work, but it's likely to not be the browser I *really* want used.
>
> The standard that's developing is that you don't invoke a KDE program
> unless KDE_FULL_DESKTOP is set and you don't invoke a Gnome session
> unless GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is set.

You should also go looking for the distribution specific wrappers
that do this already.

On SUSE at least there is a:
	desktop-launch $URL

Not sure of its standard status, but it at least referenced
by google on some Freedesktop.org lists.

Ciao, Marcus