@Thibault: xdg-open, for sure, and for 2 main reasons: - xdg-open is more portable: it chooses the most appropriate "open" command for your system, be it Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, etc, while gnome- open works only in gnome. In fact, in Gnome systems xdg-open used to end up calling gnome-open. So let it choose the suitable opener for you.
- gnome-open is deprecated, and was replaced by gvfs-open. A quick googling reveals https://live.gnome.org/LibgnomeMustDie , and also https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15556 offers some insight. xdg-open was updated a long time ago to use gvfs-open if it was available, and fallback to gnome-open for (really) old systems Worth note that gvfs-open (and thereby xdg-open too) uses the xdg mime database system to choose an application based on mime-type handlers, which is the system used by Preferred Applications, so it respects the *user* preferences. ** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #15556 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15556 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562476 Title: x-www-browser, sensible-browser and gnome-www-browser don't use the default browser To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/562476/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
