Sven Hoexter wrote:
Perhaps it's worth remembering that only fairly sophisticated users are going to encounter this problem. You have not to be using Gnome, KDE, or XFCE, or you have to be using LyX over ssh to run into the problem. And if you do, then the solution is as easy as picking a new viewer. So, while this is an inconvenience for some people, it's not that hugely awful. The point is that, if we thought (b) might give us some traction getting the larger problem sorted out, then maybe it's worth it.So the only to viable options I see are a) remove the xdg-open calls aa) and maybe replace them with a list of the distro specific tools like mimeopen or run-mailcap (pretty long and ugly list ...) b) try push some changes to xdg-open and hope for a fast adoption rate within the Linux distribution oekosystem.
Richard
