Re: File Types and Programs

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:06 -0500, Reshat Sabiq wrote:
> I'm considering whether to use OS-based or Options-dialog based app 
> customization for my Firefox extension.
> The question i have is: what would be the programmatic way to open a 
> file using default app, w/o reading the defaults.list files? Would this 
> kind of linking make the extension GNOME-version-dependent? Also, do i 
> understand correctly that the extension wouldn't even load if GNOME 
> isn't installed, and my extension uses this API?

Use gnome_vfs_url_show("file:///dir/file.txt").

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