Attached is a first crack at patching lyx-1.5 to prefer using xdg-open (1)
to open external files/urls from lyx.
Comments?
-- Rex
(1) from xdg-utils http://portland.freedesktop.org/, in particular,
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html
--- lyx-1.5.0beta1/lib/configure.py.xdg_open 2007-02-15 14:14:12.000000000 -0600
+++ lyx-1.5.0beta1/lib/configure.py 2007-02-28 11:43:12.000000000 -0600
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
checkViewer('a FEN viewer and editor', ['xboard -lpf $$i -mode EditPosition'],
rc_entry = [r'\Format fen fen FEN "" "%%" "%%" ""'])
#
- path, iv = checkViewer('a raster image viewer', ['xv', 'kview', 'gimp'])
+ path, iv = checkViewer('a raster image viewer', ['xdg-open', 'xv', 'kview', 'gimp'])
path, ie = checkViewer('a raster image editor', ['gimp'])
addToRC(r'''\Format bmp bmp BMP "" "%s" "%s" ""
\Format gif gif GIF "" "%s" "%s" ""
@@ -273,23 +273,23 @@
#
#checkProg('a Postscript interpreter', ['gs'],
# rc_entry = [ r'\ps_command "%%"' ])
- checkViewer('a Postscript previewer', ['gv', 'ghostview -swap', 'kghostview'],
+ checkViewer('a Postscript previewer', ['xdg-open', 'gv', 'ghostview -swap', 'kghostview'],
rc_entry = [r'''\Format eps eps EPS "" "%%" "" "vector"
\Format ps ps Postscript t "%%" "" "document,vector"'''])
#
- checkViewer('a PDF previewer', ['acrobat', 'acroread', 'gv', 'ghostview', \
+ checkViewer('a PDF previewer', ['xdg-open', 'acrobat', 'acroread', 'gv', 'ghostview', \
'xpdf', 'kpdf', 'kghostview'],
rc_entry = [r'''\Format pdf pdf "PDF (ps2pdf)" P "%%" "" "document,vector"
\Format pdf2 pdf "PDF (pdflatex)" F "%%" "" "document,vector"
\Format pdf3 pdf "PDF (dvipdfm)" m "%%" "" "document,vector"'''])
#
- checkViewer('a DVI previewer', ['xdvi', 'kdvi'],
+ checkViewer('a DVI previewer', ['xdg-open', 'xdvi', 'kdvi'],
rc_entry = [r'\Format dvi dvi DVI D "%%" "" "document,vector"'])
if dtl_tools:
# Windows only: DraftDVI
addToRC(r'\Format dvi2 dvi DraftDVI "" "" "document,vector"')
#
- checkViewer('an HTML previewer', ['mozilla file://$$p$$i', 'netscape'],
+ checkViewer('an HTML previewer', ['xdg-open', 'mozilla file://$$p$$i', 'netscape'],
rc_entry = [r'\Format html html HTML H "%%" "" "document"'])
#
checkViewer('Noteedit', ['noteedit'],
