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]
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