$XDG_OPEN (Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop)

[Stefan Blachmann]

Good suggestion! Will do that!

On 5/8/21, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On mercredi 5 mai 2021 19:16:34 CEST Stefan Blachmann wrote:
>> I have looked at the xdg-open script.
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>> I'd like best if I could just set an environment variable XDG_OPEN to
>> another program.
>> So xdg-open just passes through to my script.
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> This makes sense. In theory all implementations called by xdg-open implement
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> the same spec, but not the "desktop-specific fallbacks". So it makes
> sense to redirect to your own implementation in other desktop environments.
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>> So I kindly ask, could there be added such an environment variable
>> XDG_OPEN specifying an alternative handler, to allow non-mainstream
>> DE/WMs handle the open dialog themselves?
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> Make a merge request for https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/
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> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
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