On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:50:44AM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > 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.
What about using xdg-open from XdgUtils[1]? [1] http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ -- Jordi Fita Blitz Informàtica, S.L. C/ Caldes de Montbui, 118. 17003 Girona Tel.: 972 486 160 http://www.infoblitz.com/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community