At least on Linux, this is currently a feature that we visibly lack compared to Firefox (and pretty much every other browser). In GNOME browsers tell the desktop environment how to open links in new windows as well as new tabs, or that they can't do that (like us), and the UI for selecting which browser to use lets the user specify which behavior to use when clicking links in other applications. This works by providing command line options to use when the links are clicked. Since we can't do that, those options are grayed out in that UI when you select Chrome. I think it would be nice to support this feature.
On Dec 12, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Peter Kasting wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Clemens Fruhwirth <clem...@endorphin.org > > wrote: >> http://codereview.chromium.org/464060 adds the small one-line feature >> to open an URL in a new window from commandline >> >> Can any review these changes? > > Please read http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code . > In particular, because the original bug here has never been triaged, > you need to get approval from the UI team that the idea is one we > want implemented. Then, if that goes well, you need to pick a > particular reviewer to review your patch. chromium-reviews is a CC > list that tracks code reviews, not a direct mailing list to ask for > reviewers on. > > In this particular case, the patch doesn't solve what I perceive to > be the original bug as stated ("provide an option to open all links > in new windows") because it provides a command-line option that > external programs can use to open new windows, but nothing to deal > with links opened within the browser. Also, I'm not sure this is > behavior that we want to add command-line switches for; we try and > avoid these unless they're truly necessary. > > PK -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
