Thanks! I have built a new fvwm for Rawhide. Adam Ville Skyttä wrote: > 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 >
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