Re: opening helper apps
Re: opening helper apps
- Subject: Re: opening helper apps
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:44:27 +0100
ok I understand - I need some kind of desktop environment installed.
gnome port broken for me at the moment :( but once I get that
installed I'm sure it will work ok.
Many thanks for the help.
On 17/nov/06, at 22:12, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
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.
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