From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:52:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <090B076C-712C-42BD-B1F6-3B48F0C0C61C@gmail.com> <084ECF66-40BA-4A07-B8CE-9A148F4FC357@gmail.com> <87pr2130uz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271318341 17726 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2010 07:59:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Jeff Clough To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 09:58:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2JyT-00071H-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:58:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2JyN-0000bU-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2JsC-0007VI-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40941 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2Js5-0007Sb-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2Jrs-00051p-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ebb05.tieto.com ([131.207.168.36]:46853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2Jrr-000519-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:52:07 -0400 X-AuditID: 83cfa824-b7cebae00000797f-3e-4bc6c5a62e5a Original-Received: from FIHGA-EXHUB01.eu.tieto.com ( [131.207.136.34]) by ebb05.tieto.com (SMTP Mailer) with SMTP id 01.13.31103.6A5C6CB4; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:52:06 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from uw000509 (10.48.99.3) by inbound.tieto.com (131.207.136.49) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:52:06 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87pr2130uz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:28:52 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.95 (gnu/linux) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123690 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull writes: Stephen> There's a standard (freedesktop.org, IIRC) wadget called xdg-open, Stephen> which may do the right thing. If not, an RFE would be in order, I Stephen> think. Can you really rely on the freedesktop.org standards being ubiquitously available on Linux systems? It probably is ok for people running Gnome or KDE but my hunch is that although the desktop systems are on the rise, it still doesn't have the same wide reaching aboundance as, say, sendmail or X11. I do not know what a wadget is but it does not seem right to rely on things that somebody (the user or a distribution) needs to install on the system to be available unless we can be really sure that it really is abundant. It would of course be good to utilise it if present but that is another matter. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)