Re: gnome-terminal

[Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca>]

Matej Cepl wrote:

> Willie McKemie wrote:
>> No answer on the KDE/Konqueror question.  Maybe Gnome is ahead of KDE
>> in this area?
> 
> In KDE this functionality has been for ages, but it is done in slightly
> different way then in Gnome (I guess, no KDE user ever felt pressure to
> try gnome-terminal, 

LOL!

> so they have no clue, what you were talking about) -- 
> whenever URL gets to the clipboard by any means (not only from konsole,
> which is an equivalent of gnome-terminal) klipper (which is small applet
> making life with a clipboard a breeze) can raise up a pop-up window which
> gives you options what to do with the it according to which URL it is
> (e.g., for http:// it offers all installed browsers, for mailto: kmail or
> mutt). Of course all that is configurable to the smallest detail in
> klipper's settings. All that available at least since KDE 2.[12].

Thanks - I knew that's what _happened_ but I didn't know what the mechanism
was.
-- 
derek