Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> Also we must consider if that's something better standardized at the
> freedesktop level. Consider for example that we might want to mandate
> the usage of xdg-open to call a browser, that matches existing pratice
> and xdg-open could be modified so that it respects $BROWSER.
xdg-open uses sensible-browser for the generic case but gnome-open,
kfmclient, and exo-open for the GNOME, KDE, and Xfce cases respectively.
I don't have all the desktop environments installed on this system to
check what those programs do.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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