On 5 October 2010 04:06, R James <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The point is, such scripts break all the time. e.g. chromium-browser >> has a "make chrome the default browser" button, the problem is, it >> works only under GNOME, but doesn't work under KDE4 or XFCE. It's >> using a variant of the xdg-utils scripts... >> >> xdg-utils is trying to do the huge job of working with all possible >> desktop environments, this is, by its very nature, a hard thing to >> accomplish. >> >> Firefox also has a "make firefox the default web browser", again it >> works only with GTK/GConf based applications, but it doesn't change >> KDE settings. >> >> If upstream can't accomplish this in their apps, how do you expect >> downstream to do it? >> > Easy. Both upstream and downstream should obey the $BROWSER > environment variable. >
Yeah, "should" :) -- Ahmad Samir
