Bug#305450: wishlist for urlview
Hello Justin, * Justin Vander Ziel [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2005-04-19 22:35 -0500]: Of course this means nothing to most apps but urlview can figure it out. However, it has this annoying habit of double-checking whether the URL it extracted should be opened or not with a rather cryptic dialogue: UrlView 0.9: (1 matches) Press Q or Ctrl-C to Quit! -1 http://www.mapnp.org/library/pay_ben/cmpnstn/cmpnstn.htm After some experimentation I learned that this required that I press the Enter key twice and then it would follow up by passing the resulting URL to the /etc/urlview/url_handler.sh This is really annoying since this prompt effectively stops me from using this convenient tool in a shell script which I associate with a file type in Rox, for example, since the program stops in a hidden window and waits in vain for someone to press Enter (I am guessing that this is what happens based on my CLI experience). In an ideal world the program would work so well that I would never know it existed and my web pages would just magically appear in my browser after I clicked on an URL file. urlview shows that menu because often there's not only a single URL in its input; this way the user can choose which of the links he wants to open. Do you want to see urlview simply running url_handler.sh without asking anything if there's only a single URL? If this is the request, I'll retitle the bug. 'whishlist for urlview' it's a bit too generic. :) Thanks. ciao, ema -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#305450: wishlist for urlview
Package: urlview Version: 0.9-11 Severity: Wishlist I would love to be able to click on an URL file from the micro$oft world -- for example: I have a file named Employee Compensation.url which is a Windows 98 shortcut to a webpage (a lnk is similar to a soft link in Linux) which contains the following text: [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.mapnp.org/library/pay_ben/cmpnstn/cmpnstn.htm [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.mapnp.org/library/pay_ben/cmpnstn/cmpnstn.htm Modified=C00ABFFB8082C00147 Of course this means nothing to most apps but urlview can figure it out. However, it has this annoying habit of double-checking whether the URL it extracted should be opened or not with a rather cryptic dialogue: UrlView 0.9: (1 matches) Press Q or Ctrl-C to Quit! -1 http://www.mapnp.org/library/pay_ben/cmpnstn/cmpnstn.htm After some experimentation I learned that this required that I press the Enter key twice and then it would follow up by passing the resulting URL to the /etc/urlview/url_handler.sh This is really annoying since this prompt effectively stops me from using this convenient tool in a shell script which I associate with a file type in Rox, for example, since the program stops in a hidden window and waits in vain for someone to press Enter (I am guessing that this is what happens based on my CLI experience). In an ideal world the program would work so well that I would never know it existed and my web pages would just magically appear in my browser after I clicked on an URL file. Justin Vander Ziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
