hi; you can (should, really) specify it as a dependency for your application if you package it. it should also be checked through the build system, given that it's a dependency — e.g. through AC_CHECK_PROG in a configure.ac.
to be fair, xdg-utils *should* be installed by default in any new installation *and* when upgrading; I'd consider it a bug in the Debian update process if it didn't. that's the whole point of the xdg-utils tools, really: provide a stable API for cross-desktop operations. otherwise, I could have just said: "use g_spawn_* with the nautilus process, and if you don't have nautilus installed then though". ciao, Emmanuele. On 8 February 2014 08:40, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> on Linux you can use the `xdg-open` command[1] (it should be available >> on any reasonably modern distribution as part of the cross-desktop >> utilities[0]). you can use xdg-open to open any file or URI you pass >> to it with the correct application for the file's MIME type; if that >> path is a directory, then the default action is to open a file manager >> window. > > Available, maybe, but not necessarily installed. It wasn't on several > of my Debian systems. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
