Online help issue

Nick Schermer nick at xfce.org
Tue May 1 13:07:15 CEST 2012


On 2012-05-01 13:00, Bela Markus wrote:
> Nick,
>
> further tests shows, that MIME type association in
> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list works only if GVFS is
> available.
>
> When GVFS is not installed, online help button gives "Browser not
> available" even if exo-open works fine. Tracing down the code it 
> looks
> like gtk_show_uri() in xfce-dialogs.c requires GVFS which is a soft
> depenedency, Xfce 4.10 itself do not need GVFS. I'm porting 4.10 to
> Tiny Core Linux and to keep it small GVFS is not necessarily
> installed.
>
> My advice is to replace gtk_show_uri() with  exo-open in 
> xfce-dialogs.c

I'll add an exo-open fallback in case gtk_show_uri is not working.

Nick


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