Re: [GNOME VFS] Bug 81615 - default HTML viewer

Damon,

In lieu of other ideas occuring to me, I think you are right; its much
better to launch an external web browser than displaying as text
(bleah!). Please go ahead and make this change to gnome-2-0 and HEAD.

-Seth

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 10:59, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> 
> Currently nautilus displays HTML files as ASCII by default, which isn't
> very nice:
> 
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81615
> 
> 
> If you have nautilus-gtkhtml installed it will use that, but that is
> buggy so isn't recommended.
> 
> I added a patch to change the default action from 'component' to
> 'application' so it will open a web browser to view HTML.
> 
> The only disadvantage of this is that the mime info is shared with GNOME
> 1.4, so if GNOME 1.4 users upgrade it will change from using the mozilla
> view to opening a web browser (but they can change it back manually).
> 
> What do people think about applying the patch? (I know Seth wanted to
> think about it a bit more). Displaying HTML as ASCII is pretty awful, so
> I think we should try to sort this out by GNOME 2.0.1.
> 
> Damon
> 
> 
> 
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