[Bug 94166] Re: Get Help Online appears to do nothing if firefox minimised

[Alexander Sack]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Alexander Sack writes ("[Bug 94166] Re: Get Help Online appears to do nothing if firefox 	minimised"):
> > OK, we need to look into this in feisty+1. I take the bug for now.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Is there anything we can quickly do for feisty that wouldn't have too
> much collateral damage ?

1st: I don't like to touch /usr/bin/firefox script ... so if we want
any fixes for this in they should be without /usr/bin/firefox script
modification.

OK, so here what i think would be safe for gnome and probably kde:

Maybe add an alternative: x-www-ubuntu-help-browser, which would
point to /usr/bin/firefox-open-url-in-new-window:

if test -n $(firefox -remote 'ping()'); then
 firefox http://www.google.com
else
 firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.google.com, new-window)'
fi

of course with argument ... then we need to change all get help menu
entries to use that command. So smart solution might be to use a
different protocol handler in gnome/kde like:

newwindowhttp://host.tld/something ...

then we could bind that special script to that scheme handler and
s/newwindowhttp/http/ in firefox-open-url-in-new-window

However all this would require some thoughts on non-gnome/non-kde and
so might be too far reached for feisty.

If you have other ideas, let me know.

 - Alexander

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Get Help Online appears to do nothing if firefox minimised
https://launchpad.net/bugs/94166