On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Ville Skyttä<ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote: > IMO the latter is clearly preferable, and would be even a good default. But > then again, it might be too late to change the default as it could break stuff > (even if the xdg-open man page doesn't document async/sync operation at the > moment). And I'm not sure if the tools xdg-open invokes have async/sync > operation modes - at least some of them would quite probably need > modifications as well. So xdg-open currently invokes the following tools, depending on desktop: KDE: kfmclient GNOME: gnome-open XFCE: exo-open If the desktop is something else, it runs the first of these tools it can find, checking in this order: mimeopen, run-mailcap, each element of $BROWSER, htmlview, firefox, mozilla, netscape, links, lynx. We already know that gnome-open operates in asynchronous mode. In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435107, Kevin Kofler says that kfmclient is also asynchronous. Does anybody know about exo-open? The desktop-agnostic tools are all aimed at displaying random URLs to the user, and would not be appropriate for the "edit a temporary file" use-case we're talking about. I am more and more of the opinion that xdg-open is simply the wrong tool for viewing/editing temporary files. It wasn't built for that use case, and the tools it invokes were not either. I think we need something different altogether. Should we go back to invoking $EDITOR, $VISUAL, etc.? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
