[Bug 222523] Review Request:gmrun - A lightweight "Run program" window with TAB completion

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Summary: Review Request:gmrun - A lightweight "Run program" window with TAB completion


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222523





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2007-01-18 20:33 EST -------
(In reply to comment #6)

> * xdg-open
> 
> Seems too heavy for me.

xdg-open is very light, it is only a shell script. Its package (xdg-utils)
only brings in indirectly libglib-2.0 which is already a dep.

> Correct if I'm wrong, but doesn't xdg-open requires an active browser to handle
> the different URLs?

xdg-open doesn't do anything itself. It calls the right command in kde, 
gnome and xfce. Otherwise it tries mimeopen (a perl script from 
perl-File-MimeInfo) and last it tries a browser (firefox being the default
browser).

So I think using that script is in my opinion the most generic way
of handling mimetypes (it is similar with htmlview, but more generic).

Now the real question, in my opinion, is: do you want to have a 
Requires on perl-File-MimeInfo (or %{_bindir}/mimeopen), given that it
brings in perl, in order to be sure that every file will be handled
right, or do you accept poor handling of URI and files in case the 
user don't have a way to use the freedesktop stuff?

> As I'm targeting, well, my Laptop (P2/366, 256MB) I'm doing my best (in
> IceWM/gmrun/idesk) to remove unnecessary dep-chains and keep things
> as-lean-as-possible.

I also think this is a good idea.

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