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Re: nautilus: cannot double-click *.doc or *.pdf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed May 25 17:23:13 2005
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: jmorzins@mit.edu
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:23:01 -0400
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:53, Robert A Basch wrote:
> The main problem here is that gnome-vfs is configured to look for
> system application settings only under /usr/share and /usr/local/share.
Further testing revealed another problem: The default application for
html files is set to "htmlview", obviously intending the Red Hat
version in /usr/bin/htmlview. gnome-open will use this setting when
invoked for an html file (i.e. not a URI), so our htmlview, which simply
runs gnome-open, will recurse infinitely in this case. It looks like
the Red Hat htmlview deals with this by looking up the http URL handler
in GConf, and invoking it itself, rather than using gnome-open. While
we could set the default application for html files to be, say, firefox,
it is probably better to prevent recursion in htmlview with a similar
hack; I will work on a patch for this.
Bob
