From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:49:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] web--browse: use (x-)www-browser if available
Message-ID: <20101201154959.GA26120@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikfAr-KUVyqeTooxYKvKWYM4pRmw51if+349dpJ@mail.gmail.com>

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> I will look into adding support for the BROWSER environment variable
> to select the browser if no browser is defined

Thanks, that sounds excellent.

BTW, the semantics of quoting characters/shell metacharacters in
$BROWSER are not well defined (well, they're well defined in one way
by the original spec, which is ignored by xdg-open and some other
tools).  xdg-open's semantics are probably the most reliable standard
here but thought I should give a heads up.

Thinking out loud: longer term, it would be nice to just use xdg-utils
and drop most of this logic from git.  Presumably the ideal behavior
for most apps opening web pages is already "new tab", so the cases of
"new window" not explicitly configured that way by the user are bugs.
Otherwise a request to portland@lists.freedesktop.org (subscription
required) for xdg-open --new-tab/--new-window might be useful.

Regards,
Jonathan