Bug 123284
| Summary: | xinitrc refers to /usr/bin/netscape | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Doncho Gunchev <dgunchev> |
| Component: | xinitrc | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | k.georgiou |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | EasyFix |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-24 06:57:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 123268 | ||
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Description
Doncho Gunchev
2004-05-15 20:14:05 UTC
It also might be a good idea to have shell env. var. BROWSER to let new browsers like firefox override mozilla and so on... I think http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/ was the firs place I saw it, butI see it here too - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO/runningx.html (with example script). Well... this is just a thought, I can not live without mozilla anyway :) I saw some requests for FireFox in FC3. At least one of them was
to have FireFox as default web browser (which I disagree, it is
stripped down mozilla with some features missing). Having this in
mind I think /etc/profile.d/browser.{sh,csh} that 'export's BROWSER
can resolve this problem too. On the other hand, to make this work
many programs will have to be modified to honor this variable (mail
clients, KDE, Gnome)...
We already have a mechanism for selecting the default web browser, and a mechanism for using the default - gnome-open gnome-open <URL> That will open the default web browser, which is mozilla in our default configuration, however it can be changed if desired. I'll update xinitrc to use that instead, as it's more future-proof. The entire OS already uses this pretty much, so no applications need to be modified in this case. KDE does not have such mechanism AFAIK (or it does?). I know
Gnome is the default desktop manager, but many users, like me, do not
use it. Don't get me wrong, I used Gnome before, but I prefer KDE.
> gnome-open <URL>
Will this work in text console (no X, this is probably another
story about something like BROWSER_TEXT...)? I hope gnome-open can
easily use $BROWSER too. KDE uses such behavior when you setup your
proxy - it can use {http,ftp,no}_proxy environment variables when you
select 'Use preset environment variables' in konqueror's proxy
settings. I wish 'Component Chooser' had such option to select the
browser, but that's another story...
Probably this should be fixed upstream in KDE/Gnome? My idea was it
would be nice if the user can setup his/her favorite browser once and
everything uses it.
As long as many applications (aspell, cvs) do use environment
variables I hope this is a good idea.
PS: I fear this discussion (about $BROWSER) does not fully belong here, maybe this should be RFE (but xinitrc still has something to do with it)? The script xinitrc can be be fixed to refer to mozilla without these but... * Thu Sep 24 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris> 4.0.5-1 - fvwm2ectomy, and netscapectomy (#123284) Setting status to "RAWHIDE" |