Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:36:50PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>
>>> If it's really too much pain to fix xdg-open then I've to agree that it
>>> would make more sense to revert the change.
>> have you some experience how much are xdg devs communicative about the
>> run-mailcap
>> thing ?
>
> Nope but I've mailed Per, who is the Debian package maintainer for LyX and
> xdg-utils, to read this thread. Maybe he can give some more information
> about the communication with the xdg people about this issue.
Also, I'm not sure if run-mailcap even exists in other distributions. Debian is
a bit special, because it has a policy and a system for keeping /etc/mailcap up
to date (using the update-mime program). I'm not sure other distributions have
that.
The best disto-neutral solution would probably be to write a program which works
out which application to run based on the freedesktop.org databases
(/usr/share/mime and /usr/share/applications). But that's not trivial.
The best solution for LyX would probably be to first check whether it is running
under Gnome, KDE, or Xfce, and only then try xdg-open. The method used by
xdg-open is quite simple:
detectDE()
{
if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then DE=kde;
elif [ x"$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" != x"" ]; then DE=gnome;
elif xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE | grep ' = \"xfce4\"$' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
DE=xfce;
fi
}
--
Pelle
