Is ns-remote outdated?

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Oct 22 00:27:41 CEST 2005


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Nick Schermer wrote:
> When using xfce_about for creating an about dialog, the default value
> for the website button (when you click it) is ns-remote -remote
> "openURL(%s)".
> Is this not a bit outdated, why don't you use FireFox, this is probably the
> most
> used browser atm. (for Xfce users???).
> 
> I think this default value is also used by the F1 button??

A better idea would be to use our xfhelp4 script, which makes a pretty
good effort to find a browser to launch.

Long-term, there needs to be a nice cross-desktop way of configuring
things like default web browsers, mail clients, etc.  But that's a job
for someone who is not me.

	-b

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