Re: The magic of dingus-clicking

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

The code used to open the URL reads the user's prefered browser using
gnome-config (ie. the files in the ~/.gnome directory), which caches
results.  This means the second time you activate a URL it will use the
command it found the first time you activated a URL.

I guess Havoc's GConf work should help with this.  It provides a daemon
which is contacted by programs to read and write configuration info.  It
should be much better about noticing updates of this sort.  This does not
really help you right now, but it should work how you expect in the
future.

James.

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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> My comment/question/observation is, basically, does this mean that if
> I am sitting merrily on irc or reading email and I see a URL where
> someone says, "Look at this graphical site", does this mean that I can't 
> just change the default browser in the control centre and then just click
> on the url from the terminal I saw the url? ie, that I'd have to change
> it in the control centre, and then start a new gnome-terminal in order
> for Gnome to notice that it should now use a different browser?
[snip]
> 
> Telsa
>