@Thibault: xdg-open, for sure, and for 2 main reasons:
- xdg-open is more portable: it chooses the most appropriate open
command for your system, be it Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, etc, while gnome-
open works only in gnome. In fact, in Gnome systems xdg-open used to end
up calling gnome-open. So let
Ok, I understand it : applications should not use x-www-browser,
gnome-www-browser or sensible-browser cause they are linked to the alternatives
which are not editable by the nomal user and it's normal the applications which
use that aren't linked to the preferred applications of the user.
So,
This isn't a bug in gnome-control-center. gnome-www-browser and x-www-
browser use the dpkg alternatives system, which is a system
configuration rather than a user setting.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
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Ok, it's not in gnome-control-center, but I find it's however a bug. In
fact I think this affects many application, for example, the bug #718807
in wireshark or the Help of grass (for this one I'm sure they use x-www-
browser).
I have not enough knowledge to link this bug to the good package.
Yes, it's the same issue for sensible-browser too.
This is a long-standing issue, and it is well known that the
alternatives system sucks for this type of thing. The alternatives
system is not a user-configurable preference, but is a system-wide
preference that can only be configured by the root
