On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Jim Campbell <jwcampb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Ryan Oram <ryano...@trentu.ca> wrote: >> >> When I run "exo-open apt://foo" on Xubuntu, by default it opens the >> default browser instead of AptURL. This is great if Firefox is your >> default browser, as it will then open AptURL on its own. But if your >> default browser is Chromium, which uses xdg-open to determine the >> default application for URIs, an AptURL will just open another >> instance of Chromium and no package will be installed. >> >> I'm looking into making a website for the "Ubuntu AppUpdate" service >> and was disappointed to see that Xubuntu doesn't fully support >> AptURLs, at least not to the same extent as Ubuntu. >> >> I looked into trying set exo-open manually and it looks like a fiery >> undocumented hell, so I was wondering if you guys would know how to >> fix this. >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> > > Just checking . . . did you also test this on Chromium on Ubuntu? Might it > be a Chromium / Firefox issue, rather than a Xubuntu / Ubuntu issue? > > Jim
It works fine in Ubuntu/Gnome, as Gnome uses gnome-open to provide xdg-open. gnome-open is setup out of the box via gconf to use apturl for the apt:// URI. You can actually test this out on Xubuntu by running "gnome-open apt://foo". It should bring up a message telling you that there is no "foo" package. Doing the same with exo-open, the Xfce mechanism for xdg-open, just brings up your default browser, which is useless if it is Chromium. To summarize, running "xdg-open apt://foo" on Gnome/Ubuntu brings up the apturl application. Running "xdg-open apt://foo" on Xfce/Xubuntu just brings up the default browser, which is incorrect behavior. Thanks, Ryan -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
