gnome_url_show() alternative

[Jeroen van Aart]

On 06/07/2013 05:12 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> On 06/07/2013 03:49 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
>> Ok found it. It looks like I can use this function instead:
>>
>> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/2.24/gtk2-Filesystem-utilities.html#gtk-show-uri
>>
>
> Uh nevermind, it needs gvfs which for obvious reasons I am not using.
> Still looking. Guess I'll just go through panel-plugin sources...

Ok, thanks to weather-plugin source I found this as a practical solution:

gchar *str = g_strdup_printf("exo-open --launch WebBrowser %s", url);
g_spawn_command_line_async(str, NULL);
g_free(str);

Considering the plugin is part of the core xfce apps I will assume it's 
the appropriate way to do it. I also found out about 
exo_execute_preferred_application() however I didn't feel like including 
another library.

Greetings,
Jeroen

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