[SDL] SDL 1.3 roadmap...

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Tue Oct 9 08:28:34 PDT 2007


Am Tuesday, dem 09. Oct 2007 schrieb Gabriele Greco:

> Andre Krause wrote:
> > i know - this is exactly the problem with linux. isnt it a shame?
> > but maybe someone here on the list can take the burden and find a method 
> > that work for the most common linux distro's ? and on systems, where no 
> > reliable method is known, open_url could return false if it was not able 
> > to open the url. so the application could present at least the 
> >   
> Yes, while mac and win32 have simple, documented, ways to do so on linux 
> it's more tricky:

On GNOME you can use the command gnome-open URL.
To find out, whether you are under GNOME, check for the environment variable
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID.


Hope that helps.

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AKFoerster


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