[Portland] xdg-tools in non-DE sessions

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Feb 15 09:13:45 PST 2011


On 02/13/2011 06:47 AM, Petr Vanek wrote:

> I use Qt4 apps in custom Xorg session (no KDE, GNOME, or LXDE). It looks like xdg-tools are not prepared for this situation. There is used "webbrowser fail back" In current xdg-tools (see example below).
>
> Se we (people around QtDesktop, http://code.google.com/p/qtdesktop/) prepared some patch for xdg-utils:
>
> http://public.yarpen.cz/xdg-utils-patched-2/
>
> It contains (in our opinion) better handling of default applications for Qt's QDesktopServices calls (qt uses xdg-open internally in X11 builds). Please let me know if is it good approach for you.

Thanks!  We've been struggling to approach this case better, and this 
seems to work well.  I'll play-n-test and commit soonish.

-- Rex


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