Re: How is Help browser started?

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Mar 25 2012 - 04:21:08 CEST

Hi Ingo,

This looks OK. At least it will work on my F16 system. You might as
well commit it since the only way to test it for a variety of distros
is to see if it works for said variety of distros :-) If it works for
you then its almost certainly an improvement!

Cheers

Martin

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ingo Brückl <ib@wupperonline.de> wrote:
> Hubert Figuière wrote on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:51:46 -0700:
>
>> On 22/03/12 01:32 PM, Martin Sevior wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Larry,
>>>
>>> In the first instance abiword checks the content of the "BROWSER"
>>> environment variable to search for prefered installed web browser. If
>>> this is not set it then itterates through a list optential browsers
>>> and looks for each on the users system. The first one it finds it uses
>>> to open the help page. The list is:
>
>> [...]
>>>
>
>> That is the fallback. In there there gnomevfs of gvfs (build time
>> dependency, the later is likely present on any recent Gtk 2 build) then
>> it will use that and likely launch the browser defined.
>
> Well, and just in case gnomevfs of gvfs isn't present on a Gtk 2 build (guess
> on whose build it is missing ;-)) we should consider the attached patch which
> fixes the issue on both Larry Short's and my system. Any objections?
>
> Ingo
Received on Sun Mar 25 04:21:15 2012

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