> xdg-open is supposed just to open whatever viewer you have defined for the > relevant file type. If you're not using one of the desktops for which it is > defined (KDE, Gnome, XFCE) and, moreover, don't have mimeopen installed and > working, then xdg-open checks for a browser it can use and uses that. > (NOTE: xdg-open is just a script, and it's pretty understandable.) It's > possible that configure should try to figure out if it's running under one > of these desktops since, if it's not, then xdg-open will probably be the > wrong choice.
my understanding is that xdg-open is chosen as the first one even if i have acroread/gv etc, which is in imho wrong solution. thats why i have asked why we use it as a _first_ choice. pavel
