Hello, I went through current devel packages that use htmlview or have unnecessarily hardwired dependencies to firefox or evince. Most of these should be using xdg-open from xdg-utils instead. Not hardcoding firefox as the browser and evince as the PDF viewer should be trivial to understand, but why use xdg-open instead of htmlview? xdg-utils/xdg-open compared to htmlview: - Works better in non-GNOME setups - Is a more standard implementation (more likely to be adopted upstream) - Understands the $BROWSER environment variable - Has slightly smaller dependency chain So far, the only drawback of xdg-open compared to htmlview I've found is that there doesn't seem to be real support for just opening a browser without an URL to show in it. "xdg-open about:blank" is one hacky workaround for this, but I don't know how portable it is accross browsers (works at least in Firefox and friends, and Konqueror). List of packages follows, I'd appreciate if their maintainers could have a look and apply where appropriate. Most of these changes have been made without testing but then again, most of them are so trivial that no testing is required, but keep the above paragraph in mind if your package just needs to open a browser without showing anything in particular in it (IIRC icewm is one such case). For some packages I have patches available, some have already been reported in Bugzilla, and some already applied in bleeding edge upstream versions. Patches available at http://scop.fedorapeople.org/patches/xdg-utils/ : - amsn - ddd - fvwm - gmrun - gnome-libs - grace - grisbi - icewm - ipe - keepassx - R - streamtuner - system-config-date - system-config-nfs - system-config-samba - system-config-services - system-config-users - tcldebugger - xarchiver Reported in Bugzilla: - licq, #314231 - pinfo, #312471 - xfig, #313321 - xpdf, #313311 Already reported and applied in upstream devel versions, Fedora packages should be adjusted to Require/BuildRequire xdg-utils instead of htmlview when those are out: - fontforge - wireshark-gnome -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
