Re: How is Help browser started?

Hubert Figuière wrote on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:51:46 -0700:

> On 22/03/12 01:32 PM, Martin Sevior wrote:
>>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> In the first instance abiword checks the content of the "BROWSER"
>> environment variable to search for prefered installed web browser. If
>> this is not set it then itterates through a list optential browsers
>> and looks for each on the users system. The first one it finds it uses
>> to open the help page. The list is:

> [...]
>>

> That is the fallback. In there there gnomevfs of gvfs (build time
> dependency, the later is likely present on any recent Gtk 2 build) then
> it will use that and likely launch the browser defined.

Well, and just in case gnomevfs of gvfs isn't present on a Gtk 2 build (guess
on whose build it is missing ;-)) we should consider the attached patch which
fixes the issue on both Larry Short's and my system. Any objections?

Ingo

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