On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > > all(most) formats is appropriate. It's equivalent to saying "open file > > foo with it's default app". > > I am in favour of this, too. Somebody said that xdg-open does not work well > on some distros. This should be reported to the vendor, I believe that it > is good if we push xdg a bit.
Yes... I think I reported a Fedora 4 problem: in the absence of a fall-back script when logging in over ssh (and thus without any desktop environment), firefox is used to open dvi files :-( I posted a bug on this to freedesktop. One suggestion I received was, that a mechanism should be implemented where desktop environments set an X property that allows, also in remote logins, to sense the _local_ DE. Let's see what comes of that. Would be very nice IMHO. > If somebody does not like it he should simply > hide the xdg-open command from LyX. > > When implementing this you might want to look what debian does: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lyx/lyx_1.4.3-3.diff.gz > > - Martin
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