Hello Ville, On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 21:41 +0300, 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). This is a major issue for me (At least in icewm... less in gmrun) as the browser button needs to open an empty browser window. As you said, about:blank is not portable and pointing the browser to a default web-page (say fedoraproject.org) will generate useless traffic. Is there any chance that cleaner solution to this problem will be implemented before we dump htmlview? - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
