[Linux-disciples] GNOME, ssh, and web pages

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Can't nautilus view HTML internally?  That may have fallen out of nautilus 
temporarily, but I believe it will be back if so.  There was some issue 
getting gtkhtml up to speed.  It seems to me that that is the best approach, 
however.

(there might also be a nautilus plugin that handles this--or the possibility 
that Gecko is/will be/could be embedded in nautilus, either inherently, or 
as a plugin)

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I have a remote machine mounted through Nautilus 2.8.1
> over ssh, and I just double-clicked on an HTML file.
> Nautilus tried to open the file in Firefox, and apparently
> handed it a URL that looked like
> 
> ssh://remoteHost/path/file.html
> 
> which Firefox couldn't handle because it doesn't know about
> the 'ssh://' scheme.
> 
> I understand why GNOME would behave this way, but it doesn't
> seem quite right. A better approach, it seems to me, would
> be to create a local temporary file and open that in the
> browser. Though that would create other problems if you have
> certain goals in mind. For instance, if you wanted to make
> sure that the browser always had the most current copy of
> the file, you'd need to make sure that the temporary file
> changed whenever the remote copy changed.
> 
> In any case, this does seem like a bit of a bad design. Does
> anyone know if there's a good way around it? Or whether
> future versions of GNOME will address it at all?
>  


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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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