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

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:

> --On 18 May 2006 11:48 +0100 Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
>
> OK, so what happens if you click on an HTML link in a mail client? Did
> it try and launch Epiphany? Or click on an HTML file in the desktop?
> As far as I understand it, that works by reading a MIME-type from an
> extension.
>
> If reading the MIME-types is not working, that's pretty serious and
> we should get it fixed.
>
> Can we narrow this down to a MIME-type bug? Can I check someone has
> reproduced this problem in a sample app (so we know it is nothing to
> do with our own code). And they remembered to ensure that MIME type
> was built into wx (we currently advise compiling with --disable-mimetype)
> and the MIME manager was properly initialized?
>
> Alex

Is wxGTK/samples/html/test good enough? It calls wxLaunchBrowser when 
you select "open current page with default browser" and fails exactly 
like our help browser.

   Luke