From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: "Florian v. Savigny" <florian@fsavigny.de>,
18986-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>,
emacs development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#18986: Design bug in browse-url.el: browse-url-can-use-xdg-open's logic uses overly strict assumption
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:05:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva941k1rm.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A681AD-2DC5-4143-B7ED-F179A8856D6B@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Sat, 8 Nov 2014 18:19:37 +0100")
> It used to be that xdg-open just called the desktop version,
> i.e. gnome-open, kde-open and so on. It is not sufficient that xdg-open
> exists for the most part. We can't cater for every window manager out
> there, we have to go by the majority. If you can make xdg-open work, then
> making Emacs use it should be easy.
The problem was specifically that just having xdg-open installed doesn't
guarantee that the user has configured it.
The code currently approximate "is it configured" by checking the
desktop environment in use. It's clearly a gross hack (or a crude
approximation), so if you know a better way, we'd like to hear it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-08 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-07 11:04 Design bug in browse-url.el: browse-url-can-use-xdg-open's logic uses overly strict assumption Florian v. Savigny
2014-11-08 17:19 ` bug#18986: " Jan D.
[not found] ` <E1A681AD-2DC5-4143-B7ED-F179A8856D6B@swipnet.se>
2014-11-08 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-11-15 12:31 ` Florian v. Savigny
2018-02-12 16:23 ` bug#18986: #18986 " Pierre Neidhardt
2018-02-12 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 17:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-02-12 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-14 21:46 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-02-15 2:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-16 0:28 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-02-16 0:42 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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