Man page protocol.

[lilezek]

It would be nice to see a man page protocol. Something like:

man://xterm

And you get redirected to xterm in any online web. Or locally man page.

I saw the apt protocol apt:debianpackage and I thought to do one for this.
I did a "test" for this using google quick search (it is not finished yet, but it works).

What do you think about this?

main.cpp: http://pastebin.com/ugjFmg6G
platform-specific.h: http://pastebin.com/wLgAv1cp
protocol.h: http://pastebin.com/wLgAv1cp

[lilezek]

Bump.

[Frogs Hair]

You cam post your idea here . http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

[lilezek]

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27509/

[lilezek]

Here you have the image for the man page protocol. It would be great you to vote and help this idea!

[Telengard C64]

Just thought I'd mention that Kubuntu already supports this. For example, you can view man pages within Konqueror by entering man:// into the location bar.

[lilezek]

I didn't know. Nautilus does not support this.

[jerome1232]

Gnome also has a gui man page viewer through the help interface.

[lilezek]

How it is called?