From 15854bdf068bb2589ceebda3cd77b557efa34561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manfred Karrer <mk@nucleo.io>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:58:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Restrict non Desktop API for linux only (Win7 cause problems)

---
 .../java/io/bitsquare/util/Utilities.java     | 30 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/io/bitsquare/util/Utilities.java b/src/main/java/io/bitsquare/util/Utilities.java
index 83170bf31a..f709a4675c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/bitsquare/util/Utilities.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/bitsquare/util/Utilities.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import com.google.gson.FieldNamingPolicy;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 
+import java.awt.*;
+
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -78,6 +80,24 @@ public class Utilities {
         }
     }
 
+    public static void openURI(URI uri) throws IOException {
+        if (!isLinux()
+                && Desktop.isDesktopSupported()
+                && Desktop.getDesktop().isSupported(Desktop.Action.BROWSE)) {
+            Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri);
+        }
+        else {
+            // On Linux Desktop is poorly implemented. 
+            // See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18004150/desktop-api-is-not-supported-on-the-current-platform
+            if (!DesktopApi.browse(uri))
+                throw new IOException("Failed to open URI: " + uri.toString());
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void openWebPage(String target) throws Exception {
+        openURI(new URI(target));
+    }
+
 
     public static <T> T jsonToObject(String jsonString, Class<T> classOfT) {
         Gson gson =
@@ -138,16 +158,6 @@ public class Utilities {
         printElapsedTime("");
     }
 
-    public static void openURI(URI uri) throws Exception {
-        // On Linux Desktop is poorly implemented. 
-        // See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18004150/desktop-api-is-not-supported-on-the-current-platform
-        if (!DesktopApi.browse(uri))
-            throw new Exception("Failed to open URI: " + uri.toString());
-    }
-
-    public static void openWebPage(String target) throws Exception {
-        openURI(new URI(target));
-    }
 
     public static Object copy(Serializable orig) {
         Object obj = null;