What to do with urls in elmdentica? :)

[Jordi Fita]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:50:44AM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Christian Rüb wrote:
> > > 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¢
> 
> This is precisely what I'd like the future to be. With the difference that
> the url should be a standardized flag and not just an anonymous argument.

What about using xdg-open from XdgUtils[1]?

[1] http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/

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