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Re: .app intergration in GWorkspace
From: |
Nicola Pero |
Subject: |
Re: .app intergration in GWorkspace |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:18:43 +0100 (BST) |
> >> eg.
> >>
> >> Acrobat.app/acroread -GSFilePath myfile.pdf
> >
> > Try also "openapp Acrobat", to exclude problems with your GWorkspace.
>
> Good suggestion ... but openapp is just a shellscript hack to roughly
> approximate proper application launching, and doesn't completely manage
> it.
> Specifically, it won't work for the Acrobat wrapper since that wrapper
> uses Info-gnustep.plist to specify the location of the application
> executable, and it's not the default location where openapp would find
> it. Maybe someday a better shellscript will be written, but currently
> it won't work for all apps.
Should be easy to fix the openapp script ... and using gopen could be a
good idea (probably faster than openapp anyway) ...
... but I was wondering, any reason why the application executable is in a
different location ? (just curious, it's OK)
Thanks