Re: gnome_url_show problems

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

I'll be happy to add information about services to the User Guide if
someone can provide the information ...

Eugene
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GNOME User Guide: http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 03:13, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> It would be nice to have "Service" documented.  I have no idea what that means.  I see
> the option when I create a new launcher (it's one of the options like Application).  But thats about it.  
> I haven't found anybody who can define it either.
> 
> sri
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:56:51PM -0700, 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.
> > 
> > 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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