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An alternative Discord client with voice support made with C++ and GTK 3
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URI handler opens links and pictures in MS Word #296

Open Mikle-Bond opened 6 months ago

Mikle-Bond commented 6 months ago

Basically any link when clicked in Abaddon is opened via MS Word. Other apps on my PC don't fail to launch default browser, Chrome in my case.

Setup: Windows 7 (version 6.1, 7601), MS Office 2010, Abaddon 0.2.1 via Scoop.

Where does it get MIME/protocol handlers list on Windows machines? I don't see the share/mime/ in the installation directory, so is it different from XDG mime spec? Can I populate it myself somehow? The only other GTK-based app I have is GSmartControl v1.1.4, which has a home webpage link in the "about" section. It correctly opens Chrome.

ouwou commented 6 months ago

i simply use gtk_show_uri_on_window. GSmartControl seems to carve out an exception for win32 that calls ShellExecute. i could do the same but having it open word is bizarre. i believe gtk (gio) gets it from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\https\UserChoice (and http\UserChoice) in the registry. maybe check that? or also in control panel, "Associate a file type or protocol with a program"

Mikle-Bond commented 6 months ago

Control panel was first thing I looked at, nothing too extraordinary there. The handler for .url files was set to "Browser by Microsoft Corporation" (not even to Internet Explorer, idk what that even is). I changed it to Chrome - that didn't do anything.

The registry keys Progid are both set to ChromeHTML as they should. I noticed that the ChromeHTML class was under HKLM\software\classes and not under corresponding HKCU (as the browser is installed for all users), so I tried copying that subtree into HKCU\Software\classes\ChromeHTML. That didn't do anything.

ouwou commented 5 months ago

sorry missed ur reply. is this still an issue? i can probably just carve out an exception for win32 to pass off urls to shellexecute or whatever which should fix it

Mikle-Bond commented 4 months ago

@ouwou Ye, it does still open pictures and URLs in Word. But alas, I'm not as active on Discord anymore, so if you don't want to mess with rare edge-case exceptions, you can skip it)