Re: browser wrapper

Hi Riccardo,

I confirm the issue with also a Chromium wrapper. I joined the Info-gnustep.plist.

<Info-gnustep.plist>

On 2025-11-14 00:03:57 +0100 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> we have simple appwrappers supplied with gworkspace.
> 
> The infoplist contains
>   XAppWrapper = YES;
> 
> and this works for opening file in applications. There are side-effects with 
> GWorkspace, but it mostly works in the sense that things open. If the app is 
> reasonable, it will also open more files.
> 
> I would like to  have this simple functionality also for Web Browsers.
> There are already a couple of wrappers for browsers: firefox, seamonkey, 
> konqueror, iceweasel...
> 
> Now they don's seem to work. I think is becuase they do not register 
> CFBundleURLTypes
> 
> So I thought to add to the seamonkey wrapper:
>   CFBundleURLTypes = (
>     {
>       CFBundleURLName = "Web site URL";
>       CFBundleURLSchemes = (
>     http,
>     https
>       );
>     }
>   );
> 
> but it doesn't work. The wrapped app is seen in systempreferences internet 
> panel and I can select it. However, if I click on an URL this do not work as 
> expected.
> 
> Seamonkey opens or comes to front, nothing happens.
> The calling app (e.g. GNUMail with a link) hangs and complains after a while 
> with No service matching 'OpenURL'

With Chromium, a link from GNUMail opens first a blank tab, complains with the alert panel "No Service...", but, finally, it opens a second tab with the expected URL. 

> firefox comes and may open the link (or maybe not)
> 

Also, we should consider to support '.url' files to store favorites regardless of the Browser is used.

Cheers,
Patrick

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