On Sun, 5 Aug, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > html-browser > > x-html-browser > > I would rather see us make a concerted effort to support ESR's new > proposed standard unix environement variable. I forget what it is, but > this, like EDITOR, is something you really want tunable on a per-user > basis. > > Not that we couldn't do both of course. I like the fact that the proposal differentiated between an X-based browser and a non-X-based browser. While this may not be necessary for other types of applications, I think we can all agree that X browsers usually have an extraordinarily large number of features not available in text/console-based browsers. As such, I think the differentiation is warranted. Since stuff that used $BROWSER or /etc/alternatives/{x-,}browser would have to prefer one over the other if both existed, I would suggest that $BROWSER_X or $X_BROWSER also be honoured(and, of course, $X_BROWSER would only be used iff $DISPLAY is set). Thanks :) -- .----------=======-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `---========------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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