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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2008-06-21 23:53:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2008-06-21 23:53:15 +0000 |
| commit | 4745bbf0d58202dde2a4851c3c7d16614374bf9d (patch) | |
| tree | 3dd06c7dafd6e40a4551a6343e3e7f56bab4f9e9 | |
| parent | 2443329e0c30e5ff8d5355e678398db73bb78eeb (diff) | |
Add stuff to a comment, and move stuff to that comment from elsewhere,
discussing the fun of launching on UNIX+X11.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=25519
| -rw-r--r-- | gtk/webbrowser.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gtk/webbrowser.c b/gtk/webbrowser.c index 50b6a2dfd2..e2496886a1 100644 --- a/gtk/webbrowser.c +++ b/gtk/webbrowser.c @@ -26,6 +26,21 @@ * \plug-ins\common\webbrowser.c * * It was modified to suit the Wireshark environment (#if 0)! + * + * For the UNIX+X11 launcher, see this blog post: + * + * http://blogs.gnome.org/timj/2006/11/24/24112006-how-to-start-a-web-browser/ + * + * for a discussion of how Beast launches a browser, a link that shows + * the rather complicated code it uses, and some information on why it + * goes through all that pain. We might want to do something similar to + * that. + * + * For GNOME 2.x, we might be able to use "gnome_url_show()" (when we offer + * the ability to build a GNOMEified Wireshark as well as a GTK+-only + * Wireshark). However, GNOME might be moving towards running one of + * the launchers listed in the Beast code, or might have moved there + * already. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H @@ -42,13 +57,6 @@ #include "gtk/webbrowser.h" - -/* - * For GNOME 2.x, we might be able to use "gnome_url_show()" (when we offer - * the ability to build a GNOMEified Wireshark as well as a GTK+-only - * Wireshark). - */ - #if defined(G_OS_WIN32) /* Win32 - use Windows shell services to start a browser */ #include <windows.h> |