[maemo-developers] Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

[From: David Greaves]

> ext Brent Chiodo wrote:
>> Ideally, I want to open the browser in a new window to a specific page 
>> and in the current browser process if there is already one open.

daniel wilms wrote:
> the browser can be opened by using a dbus-service. The package is called
> "tablet-browser-interface" and you find the header in the dev-package.
> Here is an example how to call the service from the command line:
>
> dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest="com.nokia.osso_browser"
> --print-reply /com/nokia/osso_browser/request
> com.nokia.osso_browser.load_url string:"http://www.google.com"
>

Brent, try this too - it shows usage of the interface daniel refers to.

  http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman/2009/09/03/writing-apps-for-the-n900-part-1/

I assume C - I'm doing something similar in python later too

David

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