[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 108591] xdg-open path is hardcoded

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108591

--- Comment #9 from David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge at hotmail.com> ---
I can offer the perspective of someone involved with downstream packaging (for
NetBSD and others). One of our users hit this issue on NetBSD. BSDs as a rule
don't install most third-party software to /usr/bin, they isolate it elsewhere
by policy (with NetBSD, the default being /usr/pkg/bin, with most other BSDs,
it's /usr/local/bin). So patches like these are welcomed.

There is of course a risk with simply looking for xdg-open. Sometimes, what we
do in this case is substitute our own (user-configurable at build time) paths
over whatever the upstream software expects. I don't know if you want to deal
with that additional complexity at your end. You're making a reasonable effort
to find something appropriate already.

I'd be inclined to prefer xdg-open over kde-open, as xdg-open is intended to be
a standard/cross-desktop tool, and so I'd expect either it would be more
commonly available by default (not with us, but with mainstream Linux distros),
and probably a less complex external dependency. (That said, I don't know if
the KDE version offers some advantage I don't know about.)

Thanks,

Dave

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