** Also affects: xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser
+ Alias 'browse' to xdg-open
** Changed in: xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg)
** Changed in: xdg-utils (Ubuntu
Guys, the bug is to have the command "browse" DTRT.
It sounds like xdg-open is TRT :) but please don't forget that the point
is to get the command "browse" onto every ubuntu system. xdg-open is a
lovely command for people who have a clue what xdg is. "browse " is
what we want to tell our users to
the "kbd" package has a binary called /bin/open - it would not be very
awesome to shadow that
xdg-open is probably better though, since it (AFAIK) falls back to
sensible-browser if necessary like in a console, but uses more modern
methods to select the program otherwise
& I think it would be best
I think sensible-browser is obsolete and I'd like to see it go away.
Most things use mimetypes these days but it's the odd thing in the
Debian repositories that still uses sensible-browser that's annoying. As
far as I know, there is not a GUI way to configure the Debian
alternatives that sensible-b
Or why don't we do like Apple and just symlink /usr/bin/open to /usr/bin
/xdg-open (since it's installed in Kubuntu too unlike gvfs-open) ?
Then you could recommend
sudo apt install foo; open http://locahost:2022/
and you could also
open ~/Pictures/yakkety-yak.png
etc.
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Title:
Alias 'browse' to sensibl
Advice from Chad is that we should symlink /usr/bin/browse to sensible-browser
in the sensible-utils package.
Looking at that now.
** Changed in: sensible-utils (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Will Cooke (willcooke)
** Changed in: sensible-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
