gnome_url_show() alternative

[Peter de Ridder]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org>wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:17:47 +0200
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> > On lun., 2013-06-10 at 13:41 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> > >  contains the following:
> > >
> > >      gchar *str = g_strdup_printf("exo-open --launch WebBrowser %s",
> url);
> >
> > Yeah, and it's not really pretty.
>
> +1
>

Are your looking for gtk_show_uri [1]?
This uses gio and the mime database to find the browser.
AFAIK this will be set to the same application as exo-open when configured
using "preferred applications".

[1]
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/gtk2-Filesystem-utilities.html#gtk-show-uri

Regards,
Peter
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