integration of xfg-utils
Benedikt Meurer
benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sat Aug 12 12:37:20 CEST 2006
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> an user on Debian pkg-xfce mailing list asked about support of xdg-utils
> ([0]) in Xfce. It seems that they are a set of tools and apis to provide
> "unified" command line access to Desktop operations (screensaver,
> filetypes, open url, new mail etc...) I guess most of support is
> currently present in Xfce (via exo-open for example), but using xdg-open
> doesn't work:
>
> corsac at hidalgo: xdg-open --help [~]
> xdg-open -- opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
>
> Synopsis
>
> xdg-open { file | URL }
>
> xdg-open { --help | --manual | --version }
>
> Use 'man xdg-open' or 'xdg-open --manual' for additional info.
> corsac at hidalgo: xdg-open http://www.google.fr [~]
> xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://www.google.fr'
>
>
> Is there some plan to include support for those tools (which aren't
> currently widely used, I guess, but this may change in the future) ?
I already added support for Xfce to the xdg-utils where appropriate.
> Regards,
Benedikt
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