Using xdg-utils instead of htmlview, other hardwired apps

[Adam Goode]

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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