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[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

+ Ahmad Samir + ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com +
+ Tue Oct 5 04:15:27 CEST 2010 +

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On 5 October 2010 04:06, R James <upsnag2 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+Yeah, "should" :)
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
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