On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:07:34AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:27:48AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > that program may be configured to use /usr/bin/sensible-www-browser
> >
> > Inconsistency that should probably be fixed before going into Policy.
>
> How is this inc
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:27:48AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > that program may be configured to use /usr/bin/sensible-www-browser
>
> Inconsistency that should probably be fixed before going into Policy.
How is this inconsistent?
Julian
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> that program may be configured to use /usr/bin/sensible-www-browser
Inconsistency that should probably be fixed before going into Policy.
Joey Hess wrote:
> My proposal adds:
>
> - /usr/bin/x-www-browser alternative formalized in policy
> - /usr/bin/www-browser alternative added for non-X browsers
> - /usr/bin/sensible-browser, presumably to debianutils, a sample
> implementation attached to this message understands BROWSER,
> and c
Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> I propose also that sensible-browser is registered as preferred or only
> handler for text/html and other url mime types. This can obviously be
> overriden in personal mailcap files but the debian alternative and the
> BROWSER variable should be the preferred control it.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:48:13AM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> Again, why not just call sensible-browser? A program needing a browser
> should simply depend on debianutils and www-browser|x-www-browser.
> Parsing the BROWSER variable and substituting the url value in the proper
> way in every
>
> - Various browsers register mime types for text/html and so on,
> and that works ok. It is out of the scope of this proposal.
> ...
>
> My proposal adds:
>
> - /usr/bin/x-www-browser alternative formalized in policy
> - /usr/bin/www-browser alternative added for non-X browsers
> - /usr/bin
Joey Hess wrote:
> First of all, it's possible to write a program that uses ESR's BROWSER
> without passing the url through the shell. Here is a modification of my
> sensible-browser program that does that:
And I have a patch for urlview now, based on ESR's, that while using
system, quotes the url
Lukas Geyer wrote:
> Fully seconded. (In the sense of implementing this mechanism, fixing
> the affected packages and finally making it policy.) This is
> especially helpful when packaging programs having an extensive manual
> in HTML and some "Help" button in their menu. It hit me when I was
> try
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:38:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> This proposal grows out of dissatisfaction with the hard-coded browser
> lists provided by various programs like xchat and urlview to run a
> browser displaying an url. Also a desire to do right the BROWSER
> environment variable ESR prop
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This proposal grows out of dissatisfaction with the hard-coded browser
> lists provided by various programs like xchat and urlview to run a
> browser displaying an url. Also a desire to do right the BROWSER
> environment variable ESR proposed at
> http://www
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:38:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> This proposal grows out of dissatisfaction with the hard-coded browser
> lists provided by various programs like xchat and urlview to run a
> browser displaying an url. Also a desire to do right the BROWSER
> environment variable ESR prop
This proposal grows out of dissatisfaction with the hard-coded browser
lists provided by various programs like xchat and urlview to run a
browser displaying an url. Also a desire to do right the BROWSER
environment variable ESR proposed at
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/. Mostly because I never
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