On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:38:34PM -0000, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > how about making xchat depend on xdg-utils and call xdg-open instead of > x-www-browser. xdg-open is aimed to be a generic replacement to gnome- > open and alike.
I actually over-simplified: it calls sensible-browser, which /usually/ calls x-www-browser. > It should use the preferred applications to open the URL you want, > instead of using the system default. You have a point. Although sensible-browser/x-www-browser actually does use the "preferred application" as specified by the user... but it is necessarily a browser. xdg-open would allow us to remove that assumption and make more intelligent choices about which app to open. -- Xchat open links in mozilla not firefox https://launchpad.net/bugs/61243 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
