Using xdg-utils instead of htmlview, other hardwired apps

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 06 October 2007, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 18:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>
> > 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...

Shrug.  It works now for that purpose in applications that use xdg-open, no 
illusion there.  It might not be the prettiest possible way to do things, but 
I haven't seen anyone even suggest any other solutions.