What to do with urls in elmdentica? :)

Christian Rüb christian.rueb at gmx.net
Fri Jul 10 12:34:29 CEST 2009


> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > Is there a good enough browser that takes urls from CLI? Or another
> > interface?
>
>    Dillo accepts an URL on the command line.

wouldn' it be a good idea to have system like "alternatives" handle this? so 
you could have a link like /usr/bin/www-browser (see Debian) that points to 
your favourite browser. And browser packages should deal with the link...

This way no application would have to bother which browser is actually 
installed. Of course, only packages with browsers supporting "browserbinary 
<URL>" calls should make use of this system.

just my 2¢



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