[Libreoffice] LibreOffice browser detection

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 01:29:27 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 18:12 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> The implementation of open-url.sh has to be fixed but besides changing the
> program names to more modern equivalents, I've no real idea how it should be
> done.

I seem to recall that the open-url thing is sort of the ultimate
fallback, would sort of expect a few desktop-specific things to be tried
first, e.g. gnome-open-url, kde-open-url, xdg-open. I see you added
firefox, so problem gone, but I wonder what desktop environment you were
using, xfce or something like that ?

> Oh, and by the way there are some "Internet" related options accessible from
> the Tools / Options menu :
>   - choice of proxy

hmm, this defaults to "none" here, I would expect it to default to
"system". One can ./soffice http://somelocation/thing.odt and it "should
work", so not crazy.

>   - search engine (with preselected choices from the 90s: Altavista, ...)

I think we discussed already that we can/should remove these (and their
help docs too), they seem rather less that useful, and horribly out of
date anyway. In fact, I don't see them here on a master one, so I think
we already removed those.

>   - choice of email program

that should kick in for file->send document as email

>   - browser plugin

We do have a browser plugin for firefox/etc. which shows .odt etc
documents inline in firefox, so that toggle really does something :-)

C.



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