njsmith / partiwm

[defunct] Experiments with window managers in Python + GTK+, including the original version of xpra
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allow xpra to forward "open this link in web browser" requests? #37

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Idea from "Nightwolf" on IRC, who would like to be able to click on a link in 
an application running inside xpra, and have it open in the local host's 
web-browser.

Probably not something everyone would want, but it's either easy or impossible 
to provide the option, so if it's easy we might as well allow it :-).

There would be 2 parts to making this work: 1) xpra would have to intercept 
"open this link" requests -- presumably by registering itself with Gnome and/or 
KDE as a web browser or something? I don't know what that interface looks like. 
2) It would have to be able to make "open this link" requests on the client 
side -- probably there is just a GTK+ api for this?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by njsmith@ucsd.edu on 10 Oct 2010 at 2:20