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sensible-browser and sensible-image-viewer



Hello,

Debian include sensible-editor and sensible-pager.
Why not add "sensible-browser" and "sensible-image-viewer" ?

It will permit to solve painlessly lots of issue, for example
dhelp (in potato) try hard to find a web browser if BROWSER is
not set and default to netscape which is non-free. Several other
programs launch netscape when they need a web browser. 
(gimp,xdvi)

sensible-image-viewer may use mime-types to choose the program
to launch. This will help making programm to conform to the MIME
policy.

While I am at it dhelp do
BROWSER2=`which $BROWSER`
which fails if BROWSER is set to "netscape -geometry 800x500"


Bill <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>
(please CC me)



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