xdg-open for 2.4.0?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 01:25:40PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 01:50:27PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 11:54:29AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:31:45PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> > > > > It seems there are two questions:
> > > > > 
> > > > > (1) Are we still concerned about a security issue?
> > > > > (2) Regardless of a security issue, is xdg-open what we want?
> > > 
> > > I pushed against xdg-open long time ago when debian maintainers offered it.
> > > The issue was not security, but the fact that the fallback handlers did not
> > > work well outside the debian framework (essentially firefox started to be
> > > launched as a default pdf viewer on my system).
> > > 
> > > I migrated to debian years back, so I have no clue how it fares nowadays
> > > elsewhere...
> > 
> > Good to know. Do I understand correctly then that you would not oppose
> > having it on the end of the options in the configure lists?
> 
> Well, no, but I guess that xdg people would say that it makes sense only
> in case you put it first. In any case I can't check outside debian sphere
> now so I will refrain from interfering in either direction.

Perhaps you are right. I really don't know. It might help for programs
that are not in the configure list at all. For example, there are so
many different PDF readers these days. Just to give an example, I
sometimes use the proprietary Master PDF Editor. Its binary has the
version name hardcoded into it: "masterpdfeditor5". If we had xdg-open
at the end of the list, I could configure it how I want, or easily adapt
when the binary name changes. This isn't too hard to do currently by
just using the "custom" box in preferences, but might as well make it a
bit easier.

Scott
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