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[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

+ R James + upsnag2 at gmail.com +
+ Tue Oct 5 04:06:18 CEST 2010 +

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On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>
+> The point is, such scripts break all the time. e.g. chromium-browser
+> has a "make chrome the default browser" button, the problem is, it
+> works only under GNOME, but doesn't work under KDE4 or XFCE. It's
+> using a variant of the xdg-utils scripts...
+>
+> xdg-utils is trying to do the huge job of working with all possible
+> desktop environments, this is, by its very nature, a hard thing to
+> accomplish.
+>
+> Firefox also has a "make firefox the default web browser", again it
+> works only with GTK/GConf based applications, but it doesn't change
+> KDE settings.
+>
+> If upstream can't accomplish this in their apps, how do you expect
+> downstream to do it?
+>
+Easy. Both upstream and downstream should obey the $BROWSER
+environment variable.
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