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gnome-url

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Launch viewers for documents based on their URL

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<para>
gnome_url_show() provides a simple way to display information to the
user.  gnome_url_show() knows about the <type>man:</type>,
<type>info:</type> and <type>ghelp:</type> special URL prefixes and
will invoke the proper display program for those. </para>

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Any other URL is passed to the default information display handler
(usually this defaults to the <filename>gnome-moz-remote</filename>
program (which uses Mozilla to display the URL). </para>

<para>gnome_url_show() uses the user configured programs for the
different URL types.  The settings for each one of these handlers is
stored in the configuration file <filename>~/.gnome/Gnome</filename>
in the section "URL Handlers".  The possible keys are:</para>

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  <listitem>
    <para><emphasis>info-show:</emphasis> The command to display an
    <type>info:</type> URL.</para></listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para><emphasis>man-show:</emphasis> The command to display an
    <type>man:</type> URL.</para></listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para><emphasis>ghelp-show:</emphasis> The command to display an
    <type>ghelp:</type> URL (this is a GNOME-relative help
    document).</para></listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para><emphasis>default-show:</emphasis> The command to display
    any URL type which is not covered by the other cases.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>The command specification should include a
<filename>%s</filename> specification.  The <filename>%s</filename>
will be substituted with the URL thas was passed to the gnome_url_show
function.</para>

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