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Re: master 86dc875bf5 2/2: Make browse-url.el support for plain "mozilla
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Visuwesh |
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Re: master 86dc875bf5 2/2: Make browse-url.el support for plain "mozilla" obsolete |
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Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:48:27 +0530 |
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[ஞாயிறு ஜூலை 10, 2022] Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> IIRC this is used for SeaMonkey as well, which is still actively
>> developed and used. But I'm not sure.
>
> The SeaMonkey binary is called "seamonkey", so even that won't work
> OOTB.
>
> If we want to follow the browse-url historical "tradition", we should
> add variables for "seamonkey"... but I'm not sure adding variables for
> every little web browser out there is a very great idea. (See also the
> TODO item about cleaning this all up.)
>
> IMHO, it should be enough to provide facilities for the main web
> browsers (and those important to the free software mission) and then
> defer to e.g. XDG. So I'd recommend SeaMonkey users to use something
> like:
>
> xdg-settings set default-web-browser seamonkey.desktop
IMVHO, XDG (and Gtk for that matter) can be annoyingly hard to
understand and set-up. I spent an overall ~2 hours this week trying to
get XDG (and dconf) working the way I want it to [*]. If Emacs does not
rely on XDG but supports them "natively", I would be grateful as it
means I do not have to put up with the whims of XDG et al. Just my two
cents.
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[*] More details: Debian decided to install xdg-desktop-portal by itself
and set it up. This meant that the file picker in Chromium would
not pick up my bookmarks or my XDG environmental variables. Getting
the WM_CLASS atom of the file picker gave the clue not searching for
something like "gtk file picker does not respect bookmarks".
In the same vein, I had no idea why dconf did not save the settings
I set via gsettings, dconf, dconf-editor. It started saving the
settings once I deleted the dconf directory in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Since almost every search engine seems to give poor results, I have
a very hard time fixing these little annoyances. I, at least, want
Emacs to do exactly what I say, not someone else's whim.