Re: PATCH: kfmclient and MIME type completion

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> > This patch
> > 
> > - prefers kfmclient to dcop in pick-web-browser
> 
> RedHat ships something called "htmlview" which tries to guess what web 
> browser to invoke based on what desktop you're running (gnome, kde, etc.)
> and what browsers are installed on the system.
> 
> It might be useful to have pick-web-browser look for htmlview before going 
> on a browser search of its own.  Or perhaps not.

% grep WARNING =htmlview
# WARNING: Deprecated Script
% man htmlview
No manual entry for htmlview

I think I'll just stick with pick-web-browser.  (It's obviously possible
to work out what htmlview's doing by looking in it, though.)

You can configure pick-web-browser to use htmlview if you want, or
simply use htmlview as the target for HTML files.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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