Help Needed: gnome-open and apps patching

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:02:38 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> GNOME 2.6 added the "gnome-open" utility which launches the browser that 
> is chosen by the user in "Preferred Applications".  gnome-open reads the 
> appropriate keys from gconf then launches the browser.  While gnome-open 
> is not a long-term solution for cross-desktop compatibility (like with 
> KDE), it allows us to have better desktop application integration within 
> the short time-frame of the FC2 release schedule.  It also gives us a 
> better alternative to the highly problematic "htmlview" script.
> 
> The following tasks need your help in order to better integrate the 
> Linux desktop applications.
> 
> 1) gaim default to gnome-open
> Someone please submit an exact patch that can be added to the 
> gaim*.src.rpm to change the default URL handler to Custom and using 
> gnome-open.

diff -Nur gaim-0.75-orig/src/gtkprefs.c gaim-0.75/src/gtkprefs.c
--- gaim-0.75-orig/src/gtkprefs.c	2004-01-10 05:04:56.000000000 +0100
+++ gaim-0.75/src/gtkprefs.c	2004-03-16 14:02:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -2702,8 +2702,8 @@
 	/* Browsers */
 	gaim_prefs_add_none("/gaim/gtk/browsers");
 	gaim_prefs_add_bool("/gaim/gtk/browsers/new_window", FALSE);
-	gaim_prefs_add_string("/gaim/gtk/browsers/command", "");
-	gaim_prefs_add_string("/gaim/gtk/browsers/browser", "mozilla");
+	gaim_prefs_add_string("/gaim/gtk/browsers/command", "gnome-open %s");
+	gaim_prefs_add_string("/gaim/gtk/browsers/browser", "custom");
 
 	/* Idle */
 	gaim_prefs_add_none("/gaim/gtk/idle");