Using xdg-utils instead of htmlview, other hardwired apps

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Oct 2 07:33:08 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.

Oh, btw: suggestions how do display manual pages?  xdg-utils
documentation says nothing about it.

xdg-open "man:ls(1)" seems to work ok in kde and gnome.  Dunno whenever
that is just good luck or supposed to work that way?

cheers,
  Gerd




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