[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1086: set_browser

[Maris Nartiss]

As my Python skeeelZ are not 1337 yet, let's hope I have not messed up
anything with r42537

Maris.


2010/6/8, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> current trunk's grass.py HTML browser setup code is using wrong
>> approach on Linux and Windows.
>>
>> If GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is unset:
>> On Linux it should at first check for presence of xdg-open command
>> from Portland project [1] and only in case of Portland absence start
>> "Guess the browser" game. xdg-open will use user's preffered browser;
>> Similar on Windows, it should use "explorer" as default. No guessing
>> required. [2]
>>
>>
>> Maris.
>>
>> 1. http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
>> 2. http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/980
>
> If you know, please submit a fix,
>
> thanks
> Markus
>