On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:24 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 03/ 3/10 10:17 PM, Harry Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:01 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I was wondering if it was opensolaris-specific that the
> >> org.gnome.Nautilus dbus service doesn't accept "http" URIs for the
> >> "open_browser" command. It won't accept them since "they're not a folder."
> >>
> >> Is there some other dbus-accessible service in GNOME that can be used to
> >> either ask FireFox to open a link, or to ask GNOME itself?
> >
> > I am not sure whether GNOME have such a D-Bus service, but at least you
> > could have the following options:
>
> It does, something like:
>
> org.opensolaris.Nautilus
> /Factory
>
> SendMessage("open_browser", ("http://example.com/";, 0, 0, ""), time())
>
> But when I do so, it just says "Location is not a folder" -- I was
> expecting it to launch the associated HTTP application handler.
>
> However, when looking at the mounts that it supports, it says "False"
> for http, so that's why I asked if it was disabled for OpenSolaris
> specifically.
OK, I saw what you want to achieve: an gksu'd application to launch an
URL under the original user, instead of under root.
It will be quite hard, I think. Even nautilus could support "http", it
is a session service for the original user, so the gksu'd application
could not connect to it and use it. You can have a try to ask nautilus
to launch a folder in the gksu'd application, it will start a nautilus
under root, instead of the original user.
Some hacky workaround might be to use gksu (or sudo)'s --user option. So
get the original user ID first, then call
"gksu --user $original_userid gnome-open $url"
Thanks,
Harry
> Cheers,
--
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OpenSolaris Desktop Group, Sun Microsystems
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