On 2018-05-28 06:34:30 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > I think this is a bug/misfeature in the PIL code. On all 3 major platforms > there is a way to invoke the standard program for a given file or URL. On > Windows, it is "cmd.exe /c start ...", on OSX it is "open ...." and on Linux > it is "xdg-open ...". That way the file is opened by whatever the user has > set in his desktop environment. > > Technically, xdg-open needs not to be present on Linux, though it is usually > installed.
xv and display don't need to be installed either. In fact, xv is
unlikely to be installed (it's non-free (shareware) and hasn't been
maintained in ages[1]). Display is part of imagemagick, which is also
optional (though quite likely to be installed - among other things CUPS
depends on it). And display isn't very useful either (for example, there
doesn't seem to be a way to scale down large images to the size of the
display).
OTOH, xdg-open is part of the free desktop specification, so if you have
any kind of linux desktop, it is very probable that you have xdg-open
and that it is reasonably configured.
I agree that show should call xdg-open preferentially and maybe fall
back to display. And of course silently ignoring a documented parameter
is clearly a bug (if it's true - I notice that the Pillow docs don't mention
that parameter and the original PIL seems to unmaintained).
hp
[1] Which is a pity, because I loved it.
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