Re: [FR-devel] question for linux types

[Laurent Julliard]

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Laurent Julliard wrote:
>
> > Rich Kilmer wrote:
> >
> > > How do you open an HTML file in Linux? (specifically from FreeRIDE).
> > >
> > > In win32 I can do this:
> > >
> > > `start file.html`
> > >
> > > And it opens IE or whatever is registered to view HTML.
> > >
> > > -rich
> >
> >
> > netscape -remote "openurl(file://the/path/to/help/file.html)"
> > netscape -remote
> > "openurl(file://the/path/to/help/file.html,new-window)"  -> this one
> > opens a new window
> >
> >
> > I put netscape here because I use mozilla myself but we should ideally
> > have a config parameter somewhere pointing to the favorite browser of
> > the user or where the user can type the command to run to browse a
> > file (e.g 'start %s' or 'netscape -remote "openurl(%s)')
> >
> > Now, for the very first release of FR it's probably safe to hardcode
> > the IE way and the netscape way.
> >
> > Laurent
>
>
> We don't have to hardcode a browser on Windows because all you have to do is
> run:
>
>     start file.html
>
> and Windows will automatically run whatever browser the user has registered
> as handling html file extensions (it doesn't have to be IE).

So in the case of Windows you'll simply hardcode

system('start http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UserDoc')

and for Linux I think we should not bother whether the user has gnome 
KDE or whatever installed. For the first release let's do the following

b) Let the user set up a property to indicate what is the command to 
run to display an HTML page (offer the netscape command by default) 
with a %s to substitue the URL to browse
c) On Linux platform run the browser command once the URL has been 
substituted

In a future release we can test whether the user is using gnome KDE 
and refine this rough approach

Laurent