Make URLs klickable

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Should Growl detect URLs and provide them as clickable hyperlinks?

Yes, absolutely!
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No, I don't see any useful aspect on this.
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22%
You fool - there is already such a feature!
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11%
Nice to have, does not affect me.
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33%
 
Total votes: 9

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KarlVoit
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Make URLs klickable

Post by KarlVoit »

Hi!

Maybe there is a possibility but maybe not (I'm new to Mac and very new to the very GREAT tool Growl):

Is there a feature (or a feature-request), where Growl detects URLs in the message body and converts them to a klickable URL where my preferred browser starts?

Background:

I am using a linux-server and as a very nice client my mini. On the Linux-computer, I am running the tool 'screen' to be able to have multiple terminal sessions in one session.

Anyway.

In screen, I have included a tool, that extracts every URL (like http://www.something.com or http://www.project.org) and sends it to my wrapperscript called 'url_handler.sh'.

This url_handler.sh opened up my Opera with a new tab with the chosen URL.

Now I want to change my url_handler.sh to send a Growl-message with the URL.

But in Growl, I'd have to copy and paste it to my browser. I think this would be a cool feature, when I could enable Growl to detect those URLs by itself in order to spare this copy&paste-step.

Any opinions on that?
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Post by KarlVoit »

Perfect. I am waiting in vain :-)
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