<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2013 17:29, Stefano Karapetsas <<a href="mailto:stefano@karapetsas.com" target="_blank">stefano@karapetsas.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">>> In the interest of maximizing the usefulness of "xdg-open" for any popular >> desktop environment that exists for Linux, would it be politically >> feasible to adapt the official code for the next version of >> "/usr/bin/xdg-open" so that it can work properly for the Mate Desktop >> Environment? > Sure, please file bug(s) (preferably with patches), and I'll be happy > to import/adapt things as necessary. </div> This is already available on xdg-utils git tree: <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=b961235b197647d6649ef3d48d7cc2cecafe3d47" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=b961235b197647d6649ef3d48d7cc2cecafe3d47</a> </blockquote><div> Nice! :) Three questions more: 1) In detectDE(), wouldn't it be recommended to add elif `dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.GetNameOwner string:org.mate.SessionManager > /dev/null 2>&1` ; then DE=mate; to keep parallelism with the Gnome recognition code? I believe this redundancy check would be useful, just in case the user (or some application) removed MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID. (I guess this is the same reason for the inclusion of similar redundancy check code to detect Gnome.) 2) Why is the patch you've showed not included in the master branch [<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/snapshot/xdg-utils-master.tar.gz">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/snapshot/xdg-utils-master.tar.gz</a>]? I've opened the .tar.gz file, navigated to "/xdg-utils-master/scripts/xdg-open", and CTRL-F for "mate", but found nothing. 3) Does the last version of xdg-email recognize Mate? If the answer is "no", then where can I report a bug, together with the diff that would make the code work properly for that desktop environment? I am interested in contributing to the xdg-utils project. Regards, Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues </div></div>