Default Applications (was: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)
Dax Kelson
dax at gurulabs.com
Tue Dec 9 03:39:46 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 08:43, Robert Marcano wrote:
> Make default applications configurable, for example instead of Mozilla
> Web Browser, call it Web Browser and allows the user to change it
> without messing around with the .desktop files
At least with the web browser, this already exists.
$ head -n 16 /usr/bin/htmlview
#!/bin/bash
#
# Invoke whatever HTML viewer is installed...
# Usage:
# htmlview [URL]
#
# Changes:
# v2.0.0
# ------
# - Allow users to override default settings in
# ~/.htmlviewrc and /etc/htmlview.conf.
# Users can define X11BROWSER, TEXTBROWSER and
# CONSOLE variables to indicate their preferences.
# - --remote and --local are deprecated, we don't
# have any non-browser HTML viewers these days.
#
There is a GUI configuration tool for it -- gnome-default-applications-properties
The tool can be launched from "Preferred Applications" in the Preferences menu.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
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