[Portland] xdg-utils proof of concept

[Bastian, Waldo]

>On Wednesday 15 March 2006 23:50, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> >One comment regarding the documentation though:
>> >xdg-open-url will open the given entity in the preferred
application,
>>
>> which
>>
>> >is, depending on protocol and MIME type, not necessarily a browser.
>> >
>> >xdg-open-url README
>> >
>> >opens it in KWrite, independent of the "detected" desktop. (minimum
>>
>> GNOME
>>
>> >installation, it would very likely use a GNOME text editor if there
>>
>> were
>>
>> >one available)
>>
>> Application preferences are (so far) handled differently by the two
>> desktop environments, so the result should dependent on the
"detected"
>> desktop.
>>
>> This is not an issue if there is only one application associated with
a
>> certain MIME type, but if there is more than one application the two
>> environments may have different ideas about the "default application"
>> for that particular MIME type.
>
>Hmm, I think there is a misunderstanding.
>
>My point is that the description "opens browser" is misleading as it
will
>open
>the default handler for the given URL, which is not necessarily a
browser
>as illustrated with the README (plain text file).

Yes, I agree with that point. My response was about the "independent of
the "detected" desktop" bit.

Cheers,
Waldo