winebrowser: Use user's preferred browser
Marcus Meissner
marcus at jet.franken.de
Mon Apr 17 12:47:19 CDT 2006
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 08:31:11AM -0500, 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.
You should also go looking for the distribution specific wrappers
that do this already.
On SUSE at least there is a:
desktop-launch $URL
Not sure of its standard status, but it at least referenced
by google on some Freedesktop.org lists.
Ciao, Marcus
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