[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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Comment(by neteler):

 Replying to [comment:1 wenzeslaus]:
 > I'm not sure what user would expect. But you might be right.
 > External links are special and the HTML rendering capabilities
 > of the used widget are (currently) very limited.

 An initial improvement could be as easy as this (if technically possible):

 If the link contains "http", open it with an external browser (env var
 $GRASS_HTML_BROWSER), otherwise open page as currently in the wx-browser.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2249#comment:2>
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