Default browser setting
Frederic Crozat
fcrozat at mandrakesoft.com
Thu Jul 24 10:32:20 EEST 2003
Le mer 23/07/2003 à 20:46, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > I don't think so.. But there used to be an article from ESR about that..
> > That is why we (MdkSoft) are using $BROWSER environment to specify the
> > browser to be used for Mdk tools.. Unfortunately this is distro
> > specific.. I think Debian uses a script for that and RH another script..
> >
>
> The MIME spec is way better than $BROWSER though, since you can't
> change an env. variable dynamically. (Can't change it for apps that
> already started up.)
For the future (ie when the spec will be implemented by KDE, GNOME,...),
yes.. But I think Ettore was searching for a very short-term solution
for Evolution.
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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandrakesoft.com>
Mandrakesoft
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