Re: .app intergration in GWorkspace

Nicola Pero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.user
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0510171339470.23857-100000@nicola2.brainstorm.co.uk>
> >> eg.
> >> 
> >> Acrobat.app/acroread -GSFilePath myfile.pdf
> > 
> > Try also "openapp Acrobat", to exclude problems with your GWorkspace.
> 
> Good suggestion ... but openapp is just a shellscript hack to roughly
> approximate proper application launching, and doesn't completely manage
> it.
> Specifically, it won't work for the Acrobat wrapper since that wrapper
> uses Info-gnustep.plist to specify the location of the application
> executable, and it's not the default location where openapp would find
> it.  Maybe someday a better shellscript will be written, but currently
> it won't work for all apps.

Should be easy to fix the openapp script ... and using gopen could be a
good idea (probably faster than openapp anyway) ...

... but I was wondering, any reason why the application executable is in a
different location ?  (just curious, it's OK)

Thanks
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