[sylpheed:33854] Re: [PATCH] use xdg-open

[Antonio Ospite]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:35:13 +0100
Antonio Ospite <ospite at studenti.unina.it> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:13:57 +0200
> Doruk Fisek <dfisek at fisek.com.tr> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  Attached is a patch for Sylpheed to use xdg-open by default to open a
> > browser when clicked on an url.
> >
> 
> Tested and ACKed FWIW.

Ping.

Hiro-san, this is good to apply IMHO.

I've run into this issue on Debian SID lately which seems not to
provide mozilla-firefox as command anymore when iceweasel is installed.

Thanks,
   Antonio

> >  xdg-open is the freedesktop standard for opening url's, it opens the
> > user's preferred browser.
> >
> 
> Packagers may want to depend on xdg-utils for completeness.
> 
> >  Currently a specific browser/executable is specified which may or may
> > not work on some systems.
> > 
> >  Credit goes to H. Ibrahim Gungor <h.ibrahim.gungor at gmail.com>, I'm
> > just the messenger.
> >
> >                    Doruk
> 

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