Hi all, this comes from #539191 and the discussion that generated on #d-devel.
With Clint (s-b maintainer) we seem to agreed that since: - xdg-open identifies the preferred browser the user selected in his DE environment (like Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc) - s-b relies on alternatives, that might differ from users selection - xdg-open falls back to s-b in case it's not in a DE env we can merge the s-b code into x-o. Right when I was about to reassign the bug (with the above reasoning) I received a "please don't". AFAIUI the main reasoning behind this requests is that x-o can also open files with the preferred application and not only URLs, and that can be a sort of "security problem" (for example x-o a malicious/dangerous file instead of a URL). But a reply from the originator is welcome to clarify it :) Honestly, I don't that problem (but it won't surprise anyone if I'm wrong) because it's something similar to double-click on a malicious/dangerous executable in a file manager, hence why I wanted to bring this to a wide audience. The questions are: - do you think that converge to x-o as the default way to open a browser is something interesting? (merging s-b into x-o) - do the addition of a "--browser" option to x-o (or a xdg-browser symlink to x-o and the latter to recognize the exec called and act accordingly) might be a solution to the above problem (if a problem exists)? Thanks for your feedback. Have fun, -- 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-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org