Per Olofsson wrote:
rgheck wrote:
We've been using xdg-open as the first choice for the Debian packages and
subsequently the Ubuntu packages for over a year now and didn't
receive such
a problem report so I suspect that it makes more sense to fix the broken
setup instead of reverting this change.

The only way you can get to the browser bit is (a) not to be using KDE,
Gnome, or XFCE, and (b) not to have a working version of mimeopen
installed.

There is no mention of mimeopen in copy of xdg-open. Could it be another
distro-specific patch?

Sounds like it.

mimeopen seems like the program I was looking for, though.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qf `which mimeopen`
perl-File-MimeInfo-0.14-1.fc8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -ql $(rpm -qf `which mimeopen`)
/usr/bin/mimeopen
/usr/bin/mimetype
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File/MimeInfo
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File/MimeInfo.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File/MimeInfo/Cookbook.pod
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File/MimeInfo/Magic.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/File/MimeInfo/Rox.pm
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-MimeInfo-0.14
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-MimeInfo-0.14/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-MimeInfo-0.14/README
/usr/share/man/man1/mimeopen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mimetype.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::MimeInfo.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::MimeInfo::Applications.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::MimeInfo::Cookbook.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::MimeInfo::Magic.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::MimeInfo::Rox.3pm.gz

Looks like you could get this from CPAN.
rh

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