Hi Richard,
On 2025-11-14 13:15:28 +0100 R Frith-Macdonald
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 14/11/2025 11:11, Patrick Cardona wrote:
For opening local files you need the appropriate NSTypes
specification
The issue seems more related on the way URLs are handled within
GNUstep.
No problem with an html local file.
I read Riccardo's email as talking about gworkspace.
Opening links in other apps is a totally different thing to app
wrappers
opening files.
In the case of Chromium (see bash script below) the use of
'xdg-open'
produces the same issue from a link clicked in GNUMail, it never
happens
if you use xdg-open in the Terminal.
e.g.:
- execute this in a Shell:
xdg-open https://example.com
It will open the requested URL in a new tab. No issue.
- Now, try to click on the link below directly from this message
read
within GNUMail:
https://example.com
It will produce the issue, with the same app wrapper of Chromium
(opening
one blank tab, complaining about "no service..." to handle URL...
and
finally a second tab with the requested URL).
Opening external links is a completely different mechanism ... it
starts off
by trying to ask a running GNUstep application to open the URL.
As far as I know, the only fallback if there is no GNUstep app, is to
operate
via the 'services' mechanism (though there is no reason that
gnustep-gui
could not add other fallback methods for opening URLs) using the
OpenURL
service. So for that you must set up a filter service which provides
'OpenURL' (and register it using the make_services tool).
The documentation for filters is part of the NSPasteboard class
documentation. To use a shell script as a filter, the filter would be
set up
to use NSUnixStdio as the filtering mechanism, and would receive the
URL on
its standard input.
Thank you for this aknowledgement.
I found the documentation. I will try to create such a filter.
Regards,
Patrick
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