On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 18:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Saturday 06 October 2007, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:38 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > 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. > > > > What do we win again by doing these silly wrappers around wrappers ? > > That's an implementation detail. > > > Remember, the xdg-open style utilities are meant to have some unified > > way to start things for _third party_ applications. Then some people > > came up with the agenda to push these wrapper scripts for use inside the > > desktops, which does not really make a lot of sense. > > If you know another way that makes it possible for let's say a KDE user to > configure her preferred apps in *one* place (most natural way would be KDE > control center) and have all KDE, GNOME, plain old X etc applications honor > it, please let us know. Solutions to this particular example like "don't use > non-KDE apps" or "configure them all in KDE control center and GNOME control > center and whatnot and keep all those in sync yourself" (which is the current > situation) don't cut it. I hope you have no illusions about xdg-open being a solution to this problem... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
