On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Christian Rüb wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > Is there a good enough browser that takes urls from CLI? Or another > > > interface? > > > > Dillo accepts an URL on the command line. > > wouldn' it be a good idea to have system like "alternatives" handle this? so > you could have a link like /usr/bin/www-browser (see Debian) that points to > your favourite browser. And browser packages should deal with the link... > > This way no application would have to bother which browser is actually > installed. Of course, only packages with browsers supporting "browserbinary > <URL>" calls should make use of this system. > > just my 2¢
This is precisely what I'd like the future to be. With the difference that the url should be a standardized flag and not just an anonymous argument. For the time being, I'm going to search for binaries and launch them according to my subjective order of preference :) Rui -- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
