GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 130988
Right-click on link ought to give a choice of program to open the URL with
Last modified: 2014-08-26 19:51:34 UTC
From Debian bug #222656: Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Dec 2003 22:54:06 +0000 From: Federico Heinz <fheinz@vialibre.org.ar> Package: galeon Version: 1.3.10-3 Severity: wishlist When browsing, it's hard to switch browsers. I find that it would be nice to be able to tell Galeon that I wish to open a given link with some other tool, not just Galeon. This would be useful, for example, to send URLs to an application that queues it for download in plucker format for reading on my Palm device, or to open a page with another browser that properly renders some known broken page. A submenu like the one in most apps (Open With...) would solve this problem nicely.
Hmm, tricky, as you don't know what applications can open a link before you have requested it from the server. We could have an "Open With..." menu item that starts the download, and then brings up the dialog you get when clicking on a link with an unknown mime type, although I'm not sure how hard that would be to do.
> Hmm, tricky, as you don't know what applications can open a link > before you have requested it from the server. Of course you wouldn't know which app you need to launch to handle the MIME type... but you could let the user choose an applications from those registered to handle the protocol (and leave it to the user to ensure that the app won't bork too badly on the data it gets). > We could have an "Open With..." menu item that starts the download, > and then brings up the dialog you get when clicking on a link with an > unknown mime type, although I'm not sure how hard that would be to do. Just let the chose application decide whether it wants to display a dialog or whatever. It doesn't even need to download the file yet! An example: this would be great to mark pages for download with Plucker: you register a simple Plucker front-end as able to handle the http protocol. When you choose to open an URL with Plucker, it would just add the URL to the Plucker download page. The next time you sync plucker with the 'Net, it'll download the page and you'll have it in your Palm.
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list