Using xdg-utils instead of htmlview, other hardwired apps

Wart wart at kobold.org
Mon Oct 1 22:27:57 UTC 2007


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:
[...]
> - tcldebugger

Fixed in Rawhide.

--Wart




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