Re: [Pan-devel] default web browser

[Charles Kerr]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:35:10AM -0500, Alexandre Jasmin wrote:
> In the gnome preferences it is possible to chose a default web browser
> for the desktop. Pan however have its own browser settings.
> 
> If none is specified, Pan will look at the BROWSER environment and if
> there is still nothing there it uses mozilla. In that later case I would
> prefer it to use my default gnome browser but doing so isn't easy since
> Pan does not link with gnome_vfs or gconf and I don't want to submit a
> patch that would introduce additional dependencies for such a small
> feature.
> 
> Windows also have a default web browser that can be launched using the
> base api. Unfortunately that would require some #ifdef and I don't see
> any macro in the configure script that strive to detect windows.
> 
> Well.. In any case implementing this feature would require more work
> than setting my web browser in both Pan and Gnome. So I guess that I
> should just forget it ;-)

Patches are welcomed, though. :)