Some useful leads:
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/101106-portland-project.html describes
xdg-utils, and says Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Debian have already committed
to installing the utilities.
One utility enables visiting a Web page in the user's chosen browser.
On Debian, this capability is available via the command "x-www-browser",
which launches the user's graphical browser of choice.
OSDL's xdg-utils extends the availability across distributions.
See http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ for details on xdg-utils. It
is licensed under the MIT license, and
the MIT/X11 license is listed as category "A" (allowed) on Cliff's 3rd
party page.
-Marshall
Michael Baessler wrote:
Hi,
when testing the annotation viewer some misconfiguration came up.
The annotation viewer has the possibility to use the browser to show
the annotation results. By default on Linux the "mozilla" browser is
used.
On "old" Linux systems, "mozilla" is correct to call, but I think on
newer Linux systems, "mozilla" was replaced with "firefox". I'm not an
expert for Linux systems and
I'm not sure if that is true for all. But if, we may should change our
code and initialize the static browser settings in BrowserUtil.java
/**
* An initialization block that determines the operating system and
the browser launcher command.
*/
static {
String osName = System.getProperty("os.name");
if (osName.startsWith("Windows")) {
if (osName.indexOf("9") > -1) {
__osId = WINDOWS_9x;
__browserLauncher = "command.com";
} else {
__osId = WINDOWS_NT;
__browserLauncher = "cmd.exe";
}
} else if (osName.startsWith("Linux")) {
__osId = LINUX;
__browserLauncher = "mozilla";
} else {
__osId = OTHER;
__browserLauncher = "netscape";
}
}
Do we have an expert that knows what is the best setting here?
-- Michael
