F7 KDE spin

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Feb 1 14:38:34 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:56 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Warren Togami wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> The htmlview and launchmail in FC7 should fallback to *any* browser in a
> >> list of fallbacks if the configured browser or mail client doesn't
> >> exist.  This should help this case... although htmlview could probably
> >> use a lot more cleanup.
> > 
> > xdg-open pretty much deprecates htmlview, imo.  It'll open arbitrary
> > file,URL using the current desktop's default app for that mimetype.
> > 
> > -- Rex
> > 
> 
> Which MIME system does it use?
> 
> Is this an upstream freedesktop.org standard?
> 
> Has both GNOME and KDE accepted xdg-open?

There is nothing to accept here, really. The xdg- wrapper scripts are
meant for third-party software that wants to work on multiple desktops.

They were never intended to be pushed back into the desktops themselves,
At least that was not case when the Portland project was started.




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