Management of alternatives requires root privileges and, as you
mentioned, affects every user of computer. Because of this, I think such
a feature will not be implemented in xdg-utils. These programs are
intended primarily for interacting with DE, not core system mechanisms.
** Changed in: xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/425423
Title:
xdg-open does not interact with /etc/alternatives
Status in xdg-utils package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
Binary package hint: xdg-utils
xdg-open has its own private configuration of "preferred applications"
which duplicates, and is inconsistent with, /etc/alternatives. As a
long-time Debian user I supposed that I could change my web browser by
simply changing the target of x-www-browser, but this did not work. I
also needed to open the GNOME control panel and change my favorite web
browser under the Preferred Applications applet.
The best solution seems to be for the applet to somehow interact with
/etc/alternatives, but I don't see how this would be possible since
/etc/alternatives is for all users. A partial workaround would be for
the default browser to be "x-www-browser" instead of Firefox.
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