Wouter Bolsterlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2007-06-17 klockan 14:23 skrev Alp Özmert: >> I came upon 'gnome-open' while looking for a way to make Emacs/Gnus >> call the application associated by Gnome as an external viewer for >> attached files. The impediment is that I couldn't make gnome-open >> wait until the process finishes, neither did I have success with >> gnome_url_show(). >> >> I would be delighted by any given insight to this first-time gnome >> hacker to enable him to construct a blocking call to >> gnome_url_show(). > > This is not really possible to do reliably. Many Gnome > applications are single instance apps (e.g. Evince). This means > that a second application instance will just pass through the > command line arguments (e.g. the filename to show) to the already > running applications, and quit immediately afterwards.
Is there a simple way to find the path to the associated application? For now that would be sufficient. Regards, Alp Özmert _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
