Standard for configuring extra function keys

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:25:48PM +0100, Marvin Raaijmakers wrote:
> Well, I try to make keytouch as desktop independent as possible. For example it
> uses konqueror under KDE and nautilus under GNOME as the filemanager. I didn't
> know there was an infrastructure for starting the preferred browser, but I
> would really like to use it (where can I find information about it).

gnome-open takes a URL and opens it in the user's configured web 
browser. I'd expect KDE to have something similar.

> Maybe you are about point 2, but would it not be great if the desktop
> environments share the configuration?

Not really. If I'm running a desktop, I want hitting a hotkey to open 
that desktop's preferred application. 

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