reassign 539191 xdg-utils thanks Hello,
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 16:36, Clint Adams<sch...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:22:18PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Well, I'd say only for the "$DISPLAY not null" code path, but exactly >> where I'm not sure. I see a movement to freedesktop specifications, >> and for example gnome and xfce uses "feed" xdg-open with the browser >> the user selects from DE configuration tool. >> >> Since presenting a browser selected via alternatives seems odd when a >> user selects a different browser in the DE config panel, it might be >> nice have xdg-open as the first option, but it's your call to decide >> :) > > Here's the reason this can't work at present: > > If you're not using GNOME, KDE, or Xfce, xdg-open invokes > sensible-browser. > > Maybe you want all the sensible-browser functionality to be > incorporated into xdg-open, and then deprecate sensible-browser? After a bit of "head shaking" we find that xdg-open uses sensible-browser as fallback if no browser is defined in DE. That is very awesome, because in a DE env, we use the selected browser, while in a text/non-supported DE we use s-b, that relies on alternatives system. Clint and I seem to agree that this functionality should be in a single tool, and since x-o already does more that s-b, we suggest to merge the s-b code into x-o. Additionally, please note the whole thread starting with [1]: indeed, the best solution would be to introduce a new xdg tool, for example xdg-browser, to converge the "web" part of x-o and s-b into it. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00020.html x-o should be, IMHO, just used to open a file or, if you want to keep allowing both file and URL opening, call x-b for URL handling. What do you think of this proposal? Thanks for considering, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
