[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2249: handling manual pages with external links within the GUI

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#2249: handling manual pages with external links within the GUI
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 Reporter:  madi         |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  7.1.0                    
Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:  manual       |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  All          |  
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 In the manual pages, there are sometimes links to external pages, like
 wiki. See e.g. v.generalize has:

 <a
 href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/V.generalize_tutorial">v.generalize
 Tutorial</a>

 When the manual page is displayed within the GUI frame of the v.generalize
 module, and the user clicks on the link "v.generalize Tutorial", the user
 would expect the wiki page to be displayed in the system browser instead
 of the GUI. It currently displays in the GUI and it is quite inconvenient
 because for example images are not visible, and moreover you may want to
 keep the wiki page open while running the module.
 My suggestion would be, from the GUI, to call the browser whenever a link
 in the manual page starts with "http".

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