On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 02:19:13PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 at 13:20:14 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > I could add a sensible-x-www-browser to be more nice to our user to > > sensible-utils > > Please use xdg-open instead of reinventing it. Unlike the alternatives > system, xdg-open respects the per-user configuration written by our > default GNOME desktop (and hopefully other desktop environments),
Which raises a question: why does GNOME reinvent this system? > which > should be a good way to avoid users getting unexpected behaviour ("I > configured Firefox to be my default browser, why do I get Chromium?" or > similar). Unlike the use of $BROWSER in sensible-browser, it doesn't > require setting an environment variable, which only relatively > Unix-literate users are going to be able to do. sensible-utils nicely ask the user on the first try, instead of starting wine's notepad.exe for text files, or gimp for PostScript. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Hans 1 was born and raised in Johannesburg, then moved to Boston, ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ and has just became a naturalized citizen. Hans 2's grandparents ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ came from Melanesia to Düsseldorf, and he hasn't ever been outside ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Germany until yesterday. Which one is an African-American?