On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:29:27AM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 18:12 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > The implementation of open-url.sh has to be fixed but besides changing the > > program names to more modern equivalents, I've no real idea how it should be > > done. > > I seem to recall that the open-url thing is sort of the ultimate > fallback, would sort of expect a few desktop-specific things to be tried > first, e.g. gnome-open-url, kde-open-url, xdg-open.
These are tried into open-url.sh (well, at least xdg-open, and it tries all the gnome, kde and such tricks). > I see you added firefox, so problem gone, but I wonder what desktop > environment you were using, xfce or something like that ? As a matter of fact, firefox was already in the list. It just is no longer installed. I'm not running a desktop environment on the machine where the problem occurred either: only windowmaker + bits of kde 3.5... > > Oh, and by the way there are some "Internet" related options accessible from > > the Tools / Options menu : > > - choice of proxy > > hmm, this defaults to "none" here, I would expect it to default to > "system". One can ./soffice http://somelocation/thing.odt and it "should > work", so not crazy. Well, it does'nt: no error message. LO just doesn't run. > > - search engine (with preselected choices from the 90s: Altavista, ...) > > I think we discussed already that we can/should remove these (and their > help docs too), they seem rather less that useful, and horribly out of > date anyway. In fact, I don't see them here on a master one, so I think > we already removed those. You're right, they aren't present on the latest master, only on a 3-week-old installation. > > - browser plugin > > We do have a browser plugin for firefox/etc. which shows .odt etc > documents inline in firefox, so that toggle really does something :-) Huh? You mean LibreOffice itself can be used as a firefox plugin ? The mind boggles... -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice