> Well I've to admit that the Debian version of xdg-open is patched a little > bit so it won't do to the browser thingy and instead use run-mailcap.
yes this is my impression what should have been done while looking last hours into the xdg sources. > So it's been working fine even on my KDE free laptop setup running with > fluxbux as a windows manager. here is gentoo, so it breaks :( > > but in that case we shouldn't > > use xdg-open, I'd guess. If so, then that will complicate the configure > > script. How much, I don't know. Maybe we could borrow the detectDE bit from > > xdg-open, modified for Python, and then check for mimeopen if we don't find > > one of the preconfigured desktops, and then, only if all of that succeeds, > > use xdg-open, assuming we found it. > > If it's really too much pain to fix xdg-open then I've to agree that it would > make more sense to revert the change. have you some experience how much are xdg devs communicative about the run-mailcap thing ? pavel
