On 01/08/2017 12:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 01/08/2017 11:51 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 08.01.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> At this point (having reloaded some programs), if I were to put the >>> X-Apps at the end of their respective vectors and reconfigure LyX, >>> none of the X-Apps would be selected. My default text editor would >>> be notepad, which would require running the Wine emulator. My >>> default PDF viewer would be Acrobat Reader (which would be okay with >>> me). My default image viewer would be gimp, which I find much too >>> cumbersome just for looking at an image. So I would end up having to >>> edit the viewers in Tools > Preferences, which is exactly what I >>> would be doing with the previous configuration script. >>> >>> Putting the X-Apps last in their respective vectors helps anyone who >>> has none of the other tools installed, so it's certainly better than >>> nothing. I can understand your being concerned about users suddenly >>> finding a different viewer than what they previously had, but my >>> understanding is that the X-Apps are direct substitutes for evince, >>> gedit and (I think) xv, so it makes sense to me that their >>> precedence in the list would match the precedence assigned to the >>> apps they're replacing. >> What about adding xdg-open instead to the list of PDF-viewers. This >> should do the right thing on every distro, IMO. >> >> Stephan > > That would definitely work for me, provided that xdg-open was first > rather than last on each list. Since it uses the system default > applications, it seems to me it belongs at the start of the lists.
Pavel will probably explain why we keep deciding not to do this. I can't remember. Richard
