Reading Pnd Documentation With Arora...

[Magic Sam]

Hi,

When you want to read documentation about some PND in the XFCE documentation menu, it uses Arora by default.

It's a good web browser, but it takes some time to start, too much for a single TXT file IMHO...

Wouldn't it be better to use Midori, or just a simple text editor for this ?

Isn't there a $VARIABLE to change the default web browser on the Pandora ?

Bye, Magic Sam

 

[darfgarf]

pandora button->settings->xfce settings manager->preferred applications

that do it?

edit: do you have 'debian sensible browser' in the browser list? nevermind it's just arora

 

[Blue Ion]

Arora is kinda the jack of all trades when opening documents, as it can open html files, txt files, jpg files and anything a browser can normally handle. The downside is having to load a fully fledged browser for that.
There's been discussion on the hf5 wish list to use a lighter program whenever applicable, but the problem came on to how to detect what program to use.

 

[skeezix]

Its configurable in the /etc/pandora/conf files.

Really, what we need is instead of launching Arora, it should run a sh-scrript; that script in turn could inspect the file using 'file' or file-extension and determine an appropriate handler, and invoke that; ie: for straight .txt, could invoke something fast and simple, bug for html, invoke Arora.

I specified Arora for now since it handles everything pretty well.

jeff

 

[urjaman]

bug for html

LOL'd at that typo for some reason

 

[urjaman]

#!/bin/sh
file -b "$1" | grep -q "ASCII text"
NOTTEXT=$?

if [ $NOTTEXT -eq 0 ]; then
        mousepad "$1"
        exit 0
fi

arora "$1"

There you go a simple chooser script. I release it to the public domain (just in case somebody asks).
Tested superficially on a RHEL box at work . Ascii text gets mousepad, any other gets arora.

 

[sebt3]

#!/bin/sh
file -b "$1" | grep -q "ASCII text"
NOTTEXT=$?

if [ $NOTTEXT -eq 0 ]; then
        mousepad "$1"
        exit 0
fi

arora "$1"

There you go a simple chooser script. I release it to the public domain (just in case somebody asks).
Tested superficially on a RHEL box at work . Ascii text gets mousepad, any other gets arora.

No offence, I would go with (shorter, yet more futur proof ) :

#!/bin/sh
case $(file -b "$1") in 
ASCII *)  mousepad "$1";; 
*)        arora "$1";;
esac

 

[Aninhumer]

If all you need is a quick html reader, you might want to use uzbl:
http://www.uzbl.org/

It's just webkit in a window and nothing else.
It could also be easily extended (with scripts) to support any features people wanted in a doc reader.