Embedding bonobo components (was: Re: acroread)

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 01:52, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> Would it be possible to use bonobo components as plugins in Galeon.
> So that clicking on a .pdf link would open e.g. in the new gpdf view
> within Galeon?
> At the moment it works ok by popping up a window asking if you would
> like to open the document in acroread for example. I am quite
> comfortable with this, however this method leaves the document files
> lying around in /tmp. With a bonobo view it might be possible to
> delete the temporary file after the view is closed.

Embedding bonobo components is not supported.  It is on my extra long
term TODO list, I might even manage to have a look at it still during
this decade :)

Anyway, it seems there are two possible ways to do this.  First is to
use bonobo monikers or whatnot to a bonobo component for unknown mime
types.  This is basically how a generic shell would work.

The other way suggested by philipl is to extend plugger to handle bonobo
components and work on that.  The argument here is that mozilla already
has fully functional plugin system, and we should work on that.

This is all just theoretical.  No one has tried to do anything yet, not
even reach a conclusion if one is clearly better than the other.  And
probably no is going to either, not in the near future.


-- 
Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
GPG 1024D/68388EE6    6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533  09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQA+qCjiBKiYcWg4juYRAgukAJ9GCDO2PmGOAy0ASWYE9WUdvMgvegCcDweT
ojbshjXKsE4Jxd7nqTOsWH0=
=jTo/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----