Re: opening helper apps
Re: opening helper apps
- Subject: Re: opening helper apps
- From: John Davidorff Pell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:12:33 -0800
Ah ha!
Well, that's a whole different story. :-)
In order for that to work, you need to have some sort of windowing
environment (KDE, GNOME, something else, &c.) that firefox knows how
to talk to, and that knows how to pick a default browser. FireFox,
being a rather widespread application, can likely talk to whichever
one you choose. I don't know any besides KDE and GNOME. You can,
using KDE or GNOME, set the "open" tool to be the helper app for
http://, which would mean that a link would open in Safari (X11 link -
> Aqua app). I use that, I think its neat. Then I don't have to deal
with the incompatibilities of the unix world.
I'd image that GnuCash at least knows how to talk to GNOME, if not
KDE and others. It really depends on what the toolkit (gtk) supports,
which I think is more-or-less anything. I can't help much more, but
perhaps someone else on the list knows what you need to install and
setup.
JP
P.S. When I talk about KDE or GNOME, really the functionality is in
GTK or QT, since GNOME and KDE are really just higher-level
abstractions of those libraries.
On Nov 17, 2006, at 12:40 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Firefox-x11 is not a Aqua application, and so it being installed
doesn't make a difference at all. You cannot set it as default for
anything Aqua related. This is an unfortunate side-effect of the
decentralized, capability-but-not-policy of X11. All links from
Aqua applications will go to the default browser, which is not
firefox-x11. It should open Safari or OmniWeb or FireFox (real
firefox, not the fink version), or whatever browser you have
installed.
Does this make sense?
JP
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I'm meant when clicking links from
within other X11 applications.
A specific example is GnuCash, the help contents won't open and
when clicking the link to http://www.gnucash.org in the About menu
I get the error detailed previously.
--
<Beeth> Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are
already
taken.
<honx> well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P
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