[Portland-bugs] [Bug 16295] New: xdg-open is inconsistent across desktop environments

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16295

           Summary: xdg-open is inconsistent across desktop environments
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: fgouget at codeweavers.com


* xdg-open may or may not return immediately
   For instance try:
     echo Bar >foo.txt
     xdg-open foo.txt
   In Gnome xdg-open returns immediately while in KDE / Mailcap it blocks until
the application exits.

 * xdg-open may or may not return an error when the association is missing
   For instance try:
     dd bs=1 count=20 if=/dev/random of=foo.noassoc
     xdg-open foo.noassoc
   In Gnome / Mailcap it returns immediately with a non-zero exit code, while
in KDE blocks while it opens a dialog asking what application to open the file
with. If you click cancel in that dialog xdg-open exits with zero as the exit
code.

These two properties make it very hard for a GUI application to know if the
file was opened correctly or not as you cannot rely on its exit code. Not only
could it very well be zero in the case of a missing association, but how long
should one wait to obtain it?


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