Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 07:01:59PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: To facilitate that, I'd say the definition of that virtual package should include a desktop file with at least text/html, x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/https in its MimeType list (I think that's what makes it eligible

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 15:23:11 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Right now we have at least one package (one of the lxde* ones) shipping > a .desktop file that references x-www-browser but does not guarantee > that x-www-browser exists; this can be resolved via a virtual package. > > I agree that

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:23 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Right now we have at least one package (one of the lxde* ones) shipping > a .desktop file that references x-www-browser but does not guarantee > that x-www-browser exists; this can be resolved via a virtual package.

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 09:14:07AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: No, the alternatives system is not really useful for users (as only root can choose an alternative). Having root choose a single {editor,pager,browser,...} for all users is not a good solution. Right now we have at least one

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise writes: > On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 13:20 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> I could add a sensible-x-www-browser to be more nice to our user to >> sensible-utils > > We already have a x-www-browser alternative, so sensible-x-www-browser > would just duplicate that and is thus not needed.

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 13:20 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > I could add a sensible-x-www-browser to be more nice to our user to > sensible-utils We already have a x-www-browser alternative, so sensible-x-www-browser would just duplicate that and is thus not needed. -- bye, pabs

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:46 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 02:19:13PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > 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

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 02:19:13PM +, 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 >

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Simon McVittie
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

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:49 AM Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:03 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > I thought I'd post here to see if anyone had any information first. > > I noticed that this idea came up in 2010 and 2014 so I think we never > had x-www-browser, only www-browser. I

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:03 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I thought I'd post here to see if anyone had any information first. I noticed that this idea came up in 2010 and 2014 so I think we never had x-www-browser, only www-browser. https://lists.debian.org/20141117130332.ga9...@free.fr