On 01/11/2017 04:46 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 03:57 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>
>> I propose to place "notepad" at the end of the text editor selection
>> list:
>>
>> checkViewerEditor('a text editor',
>> ['xemacs', 'gvim', 'kedit', 'kwrite', 'kate',
>> - 'nedit', 'gedit', 'notepad',
>> - 'geany', 'leafpad', 'mousepad', 'xed'],
>> + 'nedit', 'gedit', 'geany', 'leafpad', 'mousepad', 'xed',
>> 'notepad'],
>>
>> * Notepad under Wine is not a good choice for Linux
>> (but comes with wine by default)
>> * Windows users will not have the Linux programs and not be disturbed.
>> An exception is "geany" that may also be present under Windows.
>> If this is an issue, we can put "geany" at the end, too.
>>
>>> My default image viewer would be gimp, which I find much too cumbersome
>>> just for looking at an image.
>> Here, I propose to add the most common image viewers to the selection
>> list:
>>
>> - path, iv = checkViewerNoRC('a raster image viewer', ['xv',
>> 'kview', 'gimp-remote', 'gimp'], rc_entry = [imageformats])
>> - path, ie = checkEditorNoRC('a raster image editor',
>> ['gimp-remote', 'gimp'], rc_entry = [imageformats])
>> + path, iv = checkViewerNoRC('a raster image viewer',
>> + ['xv', 'kview', 'eog', 'xviewer', 'ristretto', 'gpicview',
>> 'lximage-qt',
>> + 'gimp-remote', 'gimp'],
>> + rc_entry = [imageformats])
>> + path, ie = checkEditorNoRC('a raster image editor',
>> + ['gimp-remote', 'gimp'], rc_entry = [imageformats])
>>
>> eog: Eye of Gnome, the Gnome default viewer
>> xviewer: Eye of Gnome successor for MATE and Cinnamon
>> ristretto: XFCE image viewer
>> gpicview: LXDE image viewer
>> lximage-qt: QXDE image viewer
>> Possible other additions:
>>
>> gwenview: KDE image viewer
>> xdg-open: generic file handler
>> The problem with xdg-open is, that it calls the browser
>> (firefox) as fallback. This is not good for DVI and PDF, but
>> may be better than Gimp for raster images.
>>
>> Günter
>>
> Thanks Günter. This would work well for me. I personally would neither
> need nor benefit from xdg-open if the X-Apps were placed this way.
Seems fine to me, too.
rh
