+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Launch default browser
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+bool wxDoLaunchDefaultBrowser(const wxString& url, int flags)
+{
+ wxUnusedVar(flags);
+
+ // Our best best is to use xdg-open from freedesktop.org cross-desktop
+ // compatibility suite xdg-utils
+ // (see http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/) -- this is installed on
+ // most modern distributions and may be tweaked by them to handle
+ // distribution specifics. Only if that fails, try to find the right
+ // browser ourselves.
+ wxString path, xdg_open;
+ if ( wxGetEnv("PATH", &path) &&
+ wxFindFileInPath(&xdg_open, path, "xdg-open") )
+ {
+ if ( wxExecute(xdg_open + " " + url) )
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ wxString desktop = wxTheApp->GetTraits()->GetDesktopEnvironment();
+
+ // GNOME and KDE desktops have some applications which should be always installed
+ // together with their main parts, which give us the
+ if (desktop == wxT("GNOME"))
+ {
+ wxArrayString errors;
+ wxArrayString output;
+
+ // gconf will tell us the path of the application to use as browser
+ long res = wxExecute( wxT("gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec"),
+ output, errors, wxEXEC_NODISABLE );
+ if (res >= 0 && errors.GetCount() == 0)
+ {
+ wxString cmd = output[0];
+ cmd << wxT(' ') << url;
+ if (wxExecute(cmd))
+ return true;
+ }
+ }
+ else if (desktop == wxT("KDE"))
+ {
+ // kfmclient directly opens the given URL
+ if (wxExecute(wxT("kfmclient openURL ") + url))
+ return true;
+ }