winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser

Neil Skrypuch ns03ja at brocku.ca
Fri Apr 14 10:14:44 CDT 2006


On Friday, April 14, 2006 09:31, Jeremy White wrote:
> > +        "kfmclient
> > exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";
>
> A Gnome user will be offended if you spool up the entire KDE environment
> just to launch a URL; a KDE user will be similarly offended by gnome-open.
> Further, if I'm a Gnome user, I may have KDE on my system, and kfmclient
> exec may work, but it's likely to not be the browser I *really* want used.
>
> The standard that's developing is that you don't invoke a KDE program
> unless KDE_FULL_DESKTOP is set and you don't invoke a Gnome session
> unless GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is set.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy

I had thought about this, though I wasn't aware of any good way of detecting 
KDE/Gnome running. A quick googling shows that it's actually KDE_FULL_SESSION 
though, not KDE_FULL_DESKTOP.

I'll add in this feature and post an updated patch shortly.

- Neil



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