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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 5 04:15:27 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 5 October 2010 04:06, R James <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">upsnag2 at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> The point is, such scripts break all the time. e.g. chromium-browser
</I>>><i> has a "make chrome the default browser" button, the problem is, it
</I>>><i> works only under GNOME, but doesn't work under KDE4 or XFCE. It's
</I>>><i> using a variant of the xdg-utils scripts...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> xdg-utils is trying to do the huge job of working with all possible
</I>>><i> desktop environments, this is, by its very nature, a hard thing to
</I>>><i> accomplish.
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</I>>><i> Firefox also has a "make firefox the default web browser", again it
</I>>><i> works only with GTK/GConf based applications, but it doesn't change
</I>>><i> KDE settings.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> If upstream can't accomplish this in their apps, how do you expect
</I>>><i> downstream to do it?
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</I>><i> Easy. Both upstream and downstream should obey the $BROWSER
</I>><i> environment variable.
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Yeah, "should" :)
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Ahmad Samir
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