On 03/ 3/10 10:41 PM, Harry Lu wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:24 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> On 03/ 3/10 10:17 PM, Harry Lu wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:01 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if it was opensolaris-specific that the
>>>> org.gnome.Nautilus dbus service doesn't accept "http" URIs for the
>>>> "open_browser" command. It won't accept them since "they're not a folder."
>>>>
>>>> Is there some other dbus-accessible service in GNOME that can be used to
>>>> either ask FireFox to open a link, or to ask GNOME itself?
>>>
>>> I am not sure whether GNOME have such a D-Bus service, but at least you
>>> could have the following options:
>>
>> It does, something like:
>>
>> org.opensolaris.Nautilus
>> /Factory
>>
>> SendMessage("open_browser", ("http://example.com/";, 0, 0, ""), time())
>>
>> But when I do so, it just says "Location is not a folder" -- I was
>> expecting it to launch the associated HTTP application handler.
>>
>> However, when looking at the mounts that it supports, it says "False"
>> for http, so that's why I asked if it was disabled for OpenSolaris
>> specifically.
>
> OK, I saw what you want to achieve: an gksu'd application to launch an
> URL under the original user, instead of under root.
>
> It will be quite hard, I think. Even nautilus could support "http", it
> is a session service for the original user, so the gksu'd application
> could not connect to it and use it. You can have a try to ask nautilus
> to launch a folder in the gksu'd application, it will start a nautilus
> under root, instead of the original user.
>
> Some hacky workaround might be to use gksu (or sudo)'s --user option. So
> get the original user ID first, then call
> "gksu --user $original_userid gnome-open $url"
That's what I was afraid of; there seems to be no secure, reliable way
to get the $original_userid.
Thanks anyway,
--
Shawn Walker
