GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 163121
gnome-default-applications-properties suggestions
Last modified: 2006-01-23 23:50:46 UTC
As I still have problems with starting firefox I would suggest, that GNOME adds the following to the settings-menu for web-browsers: A drop-down-menu for: * open each url in a new window * open each url in a tab in the same window get the idea? I think Mozilla, Konqueror, Epiphany all have both features. I would say it should not be the user who must know how to start the browser right. Every Browser could write a file where it teels GNOME how to open a new URL with a new tab etc. So GNOME knows, then. And the user just chooses which behaviour he wants.
Isn't this possible through the custom settings and command line switches for the browser in the default applications preference dialog?
*** Bug 307962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
users are not likely to use the command line options, they would probably prefer to get this option listed ... maybe the capplet could use an option "using new tabs" listed for browsers known to have this feature?
taking firefox as an example, I don't see the command line switch I'd have to use in its --help output. the same is true of mozilla itself. both galeon and epiphany seem to have the flag documented, but it seems to me that the point of gnome is to provide the user with a unified environment, whereas the lack of this option in the control panel forces users (via custom browser commands) or other programmers (such as gaim) to write and re-write the code to handle this time and time again. This will inevitably lead to different implementations offering differing levels of stability and functionality. Hardly the desired state of things, if you are aiming for a unified and consistent desktop. it would thus seem to me that adding this option to gnome itself would be a no-brainer. then gnome-open do the Right Thing, and applications could simply rely on gnome to know what the user wants, thus providing consistency in both stability and functionality.
what is "the Right Thing" for you? gnome-open simply uses /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command and this capplet writes the value here.
obviously this depends on the user. I myself would expect it to open in a new tab in an existing instance if possible. Other users would quite concievably want it to open in a new window. Currently you'd have to 1)know or look up the command line flag for your browser of choice 2)find that preference in the gconf config 3)manually edit it to change this behavior if you want it in a tab, and repeat the process if you change your default browser or if the flag changes, or if you decide you don't like it afterall. Surely its not too much GUI space to create an option to handle this for you.
That's what I suggest (cf comment #3).
*** Bug 316344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 52264 [details] [review] add a option to open links in a new tab I added options for galeon and epiphany but don't know for others web browsers.
Like we're now in developement period, can you consider to review this patch ? Thanks.
There is some discussion/patches on the gnomecc list about a new preferred app capplet and it has this feature
This feature seems implemented in 2.13 branche so i assume bug can be closed.
Indeed fixed.