[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support

[Michael Terry]

This is tricky.  sensible-browser is called by xdg-open in the fallback
case.  So if we add smarts to sensible-browser to call xdg-open for some
desktops, then we risk the fallbacks not matching up perfectly and an
infinite loop.

It seems like xdg-open is the smartest/most-toplevel of the scripts that
open URLs.  So how about either of these options?

A) Switch OO.o to use xdg-open

B) Copy the logic in sensible-browser to the generic fallback case of
xdg-open (instead of calling sensible-browser) and then make sensible-
browser just be a call to xdg-open.  You'd also have to deal with the
fact that sensible-browser should work without a URL, but xdg-open does
not.

(A) seems less intrusive; (B) seems more widely useful but much less
likely to be accepted.  Chris, you didn't like (A)?

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sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858
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