Re: WWW interface functions in Gnome libraries?

["Michael Glauche" <glauche plum de>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Hughes <graham@treepeople.dyn.ml.org>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Mittwoch, 20. Mai 1998 00:52
Subject: WWW interface functions in Gnome libraries?


>Some background: I ran KDE for some time a ways back, and the only
>thing that *really* impressed me was knotes, their post it note
>program.  gpostit isn't really the same thing, so I was going to have a
>look at basically rewriting knotes to use Gtk.
>
>One of the cool things knotes could do is if you double clicked on a
>URL, it would launch a new browser window on that site; it made it easy
>to store a list of places to look at.  Knotes has an easy time of this,
>because there exists a standard web browser.
>
>Gnome has no analogue, but it might be useful to provide an API and a
>standard implementation (that invokes netscape or something, or even
>just xterm -e lynx) so a) all web code is isolated, and if we decide to
>specially handle e.g. ftp:// URLs and pass them to gmc, we only have to
>change one thing, b) a standard web browser may exist in future, and c)
>people shouldn't really have to tell each and every program `No, use
>Lynx!'
>

How about some User Setting : which is the standard browser ?

regards,
   Michael