[PATCH 2/2] winebrowser: Open the default browser if called without an argument.

Vincent Povirk madewokherd at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 11:08:44 CDT 2017


So, we'd just load winehq.org? Seems pretty weird to me.

I think it's reasonable to expect that a browser will open when its
desktop file is called with no arguments. Whether it loads to its
default start page is unimportant.

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I'd suggest to simply open the default start page in that case. That's
>>> what iexplore does when there are no arguments.
>>
>> That's the intent. We don't know what the default start page is for
>> the user's default browser, but it should open it when started with no
>> arguments.
>
> I don't mean the default page for the Unix browser, the behavior is
> apparently not guaranteed in that case. I mean get the default page
> configured on the Windows side, and open that. This way we don't need to
> worry about what the Unix browser will do with no arguments.
>
> --
> Alexandre Julliard
> julliard at winehq.org



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