Re: browser wrapper

Hi Richard,

On 2025-11-14 13:15:28 +0100 R Frith-Macdonald 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 14/11/2025 11:11, Patrick Cardona wrote:
>>> For opening local files you need the appropriate NSTypes 
>>> specification
>> The issue seems more related on the way URLs are handled within 
>> GNUstep.
>> No problem with an html local file.
> 
> I read Riccardo's email as talking about gworkspace.
> 
> Opening links in other apps is a totally different thing to app 
> wrappers 
> opening files.
> 
>> In the case of Chromium (see bash script below) the use of 
>> 'xdg-open' 
>> produces the same issue  from a link clicked in GNUMail, it never 
>> happens 
>> if you use xdg-open in the Terminal.
> 
>> e.g.:
>> - execute this in a Shell:
>> 	xdg-open https://example.com
>> It will open the requested URL in a new tab. No issue.
> 
>>    - Now, try to click on the link below directly from this message 
>> read 
>> within GNUMail:
>> 	https://example.com
> 
>> It will produce the issue, with the same app wrapper of Chromium 
>> (opening 
>> one blank tab, complaining  about "no service..." to handle URL... 
>> and 
>> finally a second tab with the requested URL).
> 
> Opening external links is a completely different mechanism ... it 
> starts off 
> by trying to ask a running GNUstep application to open the URL.
> 
> As far as I know, the only fallback if there is no GNUstep app, is to 
> operate 
> via the 'services' mechanism (though there is no reason that 
> gnustep-gui 
> could not add other fallback methods for opening URLs) using the 
> OpenURL 
> service. So for that you must set up a filter service which provides 
> 'OpenURL' (and register it using the make_services tool).
> 
> The documentation for filters is part of the NSPasteboard class 
> documentation. To use a shell script as a filter, the filter would be 
> set up 
> to use NSUnixStdio as the filtering mechanism, and would receive the 
> URL on 
> its standard input.
> 

Thank you for this aknowledgement.
I found the documentation. I will try to create such a filter.

Regards,
Patrick

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