#980: WinGRASS shouldn't use Internet Explorer as a default browser
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Packaging | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Keywords: | Platform: MSWindows Vista
Cpu: x86-32 |
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Current WinGRASS launcher sets GRASS_HTML_BROWSER to Internet Explorer and
thus doesn't respect users preferences. When it gets changed to explorer,
g.manual (and thus gis.m and wxgui) open manuals in users preferred
browser (i.e. new tab in Firefox) and user doesn't have to hack around
with env settings.
{{{
GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=explorer
}}}
Note missing quotes or path, as explorer.exe normally resides in PATH
(C:\windows) and gets called from shell script g.manual.
Tested on WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r41233-1 running on Windows Vista.
#980: WinGRASS shouldn't use Internet Explorer as a default browser
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Packaging | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Resolution: | Keywords: wingrass
Platform: MSWindows Vista | Cpu: x86-32
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Comment (by hellik):
Replying to [comment:1 hamish]:
> see previous attempts in
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/86
> and
> source:grass/trunk/mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi@41256#L535
>
> help required to fix the FIXME.
ReadRegStr $R0 HKCR "http\shell\open\command" (in the NSIS-script) should
give the path to default browser (ie, firefox, opera or whatever).
#980: WinGRASS shouldn't use Internet Explorer as a default browser
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Packaging | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Resolution: | Keywords: wingrass
Platform: MSWindows Vista | Cpu: x86-32
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Comment (by marisn):
Replying to [comment:2 hellik]:
> ReadRegStr $R0 HKCR "http\shell\open\command" (in the NSIS-script)
should give the path to default browser (ie, firefox, opera or whatever).
>
> Helmut
Your' doing it wrong. GRASS should not hardcode or try to guess current
default browser. Let Windows handle it. If user changes default Windows
browser, GRASS will use new one instead of old one.
There's an issue with current approach - when user opens GRASS help in
current WinGRASS within Internet Explorer, it's blocking wxgui command
output till IE window gets closed. If GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is set to
"explorer", then command output is not blocked.
#980: WinGRASS shouldn't use Internet Explorer as a default browser
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Packaging | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Resolution: | Keywords: wingrass
Platform: MSWindows Vista | Cpu: x86-32
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Comment (by hellik):
Replying to [comment:3 marisn]:
> Replying to [comment:2 hellik]:
> > ReadRegStr $R0 HKCR "http\shell\open\command" (in the NSIS-script)
should give the path to default browser (ie, firefox, opera or whatever).
> >
> > Helmut
> Your' doing it wrong. GRASS should not hardcode or try to guess current
default browser. Let Windows handle it. If user changes default Windows
browser, GRASS will use new one instead of old one.
>
> There's an issue with current approach - when user opens GRASS help in
current WinGRASS within Internet Explorer, it's blocking wxgui command
output till IE window gets closed. If GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is set to
"explorer", then command output is not blocked.
done in r41428, r41429, r41430.
tested a little bit with self compiled grass64, grass65, grass7. please
test the nightly builds.
#980: WinGRASS shouldn't use Internet Explorer as a default browser
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Packaging | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: wingrass
Platform: MSWindows Vista | Cpu: x86-32
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Changes (by marisn):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
Works just fine - GRASS documentation for me opens in new Firefox tab
Changing default Windows web browser immediately affects also GRASS (as it
should be). As a reporter I take my freedom to close this bug. If anybody
notices something bad - feel free to reopen it.
