<div dir="ltr">Well, actually, not unless the customer also installs snapd-xdg-open. Why is it an add-on? Why not just make it part of snapd?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Spencer Parkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spencertparkin@gmail.com" target="_blank">spencertparkin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's a miracle! It works! Now, for the first time ever, my users (all 0 of them) can reach the help page by clicking on "help" from within the app! Thanks, Didier. You're a real pal.<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Didier Roche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:didrocks@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">didrocks@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>Le 21/11/2016 à 04:26, Spencer a écrit :<br>
> It's been a few weeks now, but last I heard, the snapcraft team was or did a sprint to address current limitations snaps have regarding the invocation of external processes. Specifically, it would be nice to launch the user's default browser with a URL, or let a snap invoke another instance of itself. What's the status on this?<br>
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</span>Hey Spencer,<br>
<br>
Default browser should works for some months already if your application<br>
(or toolkit, like Qt does) invoke the xdg-open to open the url. This is<br>
then transmitted via dbus to an external process on your classic system<br>
which then issues the real xdg-open command.<br>
For the others, there are been indeed multiple discussions on this at<br>
multiple places (here, on the bug report…), but no action or firm<br>
decision. I'm CCing Gustavo as he was the one against a more generic<br>
intermediate solutions.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Didier<br>
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