Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Executing Default Web Browser?

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:

> Yuck! Don't do that :-) Quite apart from the question "what name"
> ("mozilla", "mozilla-firefox") there is the question "where", and
> "which of the ones you find".
>
> Try the other thing I suggested, which is to use the MimeType stuff.
> This is the mechanism an email client uses when clicking on an HTML
> link. So, use
>     wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromMimeType
> to get a wxFileType * for your HTML file, and, e.g.
>     wxFileType::GetOpenCommand

This is exactly what wxLaunchDefaultBrowser does. The file I had to edit 
was /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys, which contains this information 
(Gnome had defaulted to Epiphany, which is fair enough since it's the 
browser it ships with, but I hadn't installed it).

   Luke