xfbrowser4

Erik Harrison erikharrison at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 02:20:24 CET 2004


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:45:05 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 11/09/04 23:38, Ladanyi, Akos wrote:
> 
> 
> > Dear Xfce Developers,
> >
> > As far as I know xfterm4 uses the TERMCMD enviroment variable to
> > determine the preferred terminal program. While xfhelp4 uses the BROWSER
> > variable to determine the preferred browser. Now in the default menu
> > generated by xfdesktop the Web Browser entry launches mozilla, and in
> > xffm the terminal icon launches xfce4-terminal.
> >
> > I guess now everybody knows what I want to say. I suppose xffm should
> > use xfterm4 too and a new wrapper script should be introduced
> > (xfbrowser4 ?). Latter would be a simple modification of xfhelp4.
> > And both the 'Web Browser' entry in the desktop menu and xfhelp4 could
> > use xfbrowser4.
> >
> > I think this would improve consistency, and it can be easily done.
> > What do you think?
> 
> xfhelp4 is basically just a browser launcher.  it could just be renamed
> to xfbrowser4, and xfhelp4 could call it for backward compat.  yeah, this
> is something i've been meaning to do for a while now, but i never got
> around to it.

Didn't Jasper write something that did this a while back?

-Erik

> 
>         -b
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-Erik



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