Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:48, suvayu ali wrote: > or by some script while > installation (I have no idea what that could be). Exactly. IMHO. Installation should be seamless as in the Windows JRE install, where you get a fully functioning plug-in *and* Java Web Start. Remember that once upon a t

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-15 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:00, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I think you should investigate that way... you need to register the > new mime types in the browser, otherwise the browser pops up that > dialog that says "what app do you want to use to open this extraneous > thing that the cat just dragged

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 18:46, Deepak Bhole wrote: > Is something missing above? > > Deepak http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3_and_above http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_media_handling_behaviour https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewtopi

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-13 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Fernando Cassia [2012-04-13 07:26]: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 04:11, T.C. Hollingsworth > wrote: > > If you're using Firefox, just click on a JNLP file, choose Other from > > the "Open with" dropdown, enter "/usr/bin/javaws", and check the "Do > > this automatically" box, and you'll be all set.

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 04:11, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > If you're using Firefox, just click on a JNLP file, choose Other from > the "Open with" dropdown, enter "/usr/bin/javaws", and check the "Do > this automatically" box, and you'll be all set. Yes, I eventually found that. I will bug the Ic

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-13 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 19:25, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> So here I am, looking at a browser that tells me if I want to open a >> .jnlp link with a text editor, instead of looking at the Java Web >> Start app I want to launch. The Icedtea p

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:03, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > I have icedtea-web installed on a Fedora 15 system, and it provides > javaws. I just save the .jnlp file, and then run it with javaws using: > >  $ javaws file.jnlp > > SK Yes, but that's not the idea of Java Web Start. The idea of Java Web S

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-12 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: | D'oh! there is a /bin/javaws on my system. I guess IcedTea put it there. | It's just not associated as a helper app in the browser. \-- I have icedtea-web installed on a Fedora 15 system, and it provides javaws. I just save the .j

Re: Icedtea / OpenJDK running a Java Web Start (.jnlp) app

2012-04-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 19:25, Fernando Cassia wrote: > So here I am, looking at a browser that tells me if I want to open a > .jnlp link with a text editor, instead of looking at the Java Web > Start app I want to launch. The Icedtea page provides no information > of use, and google searches have