On Saturday 06 October 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 21:41 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > 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). By the way, there are two more features in htmlview that xdg-open lacks: error dialogs and the ability to open a tty browser in a GUI console. > 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. For example /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html could be used for that. However, doing so has some problems too; eg. it disrespects the user configured home page for the browser, does not pick a localized version of that index.html, and fedora-release-notes could be conceivably not installed in some setups. > Is there any chance that cleaner solution to this problem will be > implemented before we dump htmlview? I think in cases where xdg-open doesn't provide a satisfactory solution, we can stick with htmlview. And htmlview could be internally changed to use xdg-open for cases where it is passed an argument which would make it honor non-GNOME desktop settings better too. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
