[switching to plt-dev] On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Apr 28, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> The PDF button only works on OS X, where there's always an easy way >> to open a PDF. We could probably test for the presence of >> `xdg-open' on Linux to make it work there too. > > Doing this on Linux will require searching (evince and xpdf are other > likely candidates, and more generic things like `gnome-open') -- it's > going to take some time for xdg-open to be popular enough. (And > before you argue: "popular" = installed by default on practically all > distros, old ones that don't have it are a negligible minority. Both > are currently wrong.)
What distros don't install xdg-open by default? I'm pretty sure Fedora and Ubuntu both do. Also, I'm suggesting only showing the button if 'xdg-open' is in the path, rather than having some complicated search. > Windows should be easy -- just openning it will let the shell do > whatever needs to be done. If you know how to do it, the code is in scribble/tools/drscheme-buttons. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
