custom-WebBrowser follow up

[Jerry Bond]

Thanks for the answer, Nick--I wasn't sure as a mere Project Manager 
that i counted as a "developer" ...

1) I meant my question to be simpler: if a user selects a preferred 
browser, why doesn't helpers.rc use the "Name" string in the desktop 
file?  (Maybe you answered that and I just didn't get it...)

2) Is that "directory of desktop files shipped with the exo package with 
all 'known' browsers, editors and terminals" editable by us to include 
QupZilla?

Thanks.

Jerry

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> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:51:05 -0500
> From: Jerry Bond <stormyjerry at gmail.com>
> To: xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> Subject: custom-WebBrowser
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> Hi List --
>
> I posted this question twice on the Forum without result, so am turning
> to you.
>
> In MX-14, we are now (approaching RC 1) using QupZilla as default
> browser because of its high function:size ratio and have selected it
> under Preferred Applications.  We are trying to code for a GUI entry
> "Restore Default Browser defaults," and we are having trouble
> generalizing it to read the name of the selected default browser.  I see
> ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc, where I read: WebBrowser=custom-WebBrowser,
> and I also see that a new desktop file has been placed inside ~/.local.
>
> When the user selects a browser, any browser, under Preferred
> Applications, *why doesn't the name just simply show up in the
> helpers.rc file* as long as there is an executable and a desktop file?
> Is there a master list of known/named/approved browsers somewhere that
> we can edit so the helpers.rc file will include the actual browser name?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jerry
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> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:08:59 +0100
> From: Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org>
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> Subject: Re: custom-WebBrowser
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> Hi,
>
> Forums are for users, not for development.
>
> We cannot referrer to the browser name, since this is a translatable
> string [in the desktop files], so therefore the desktop file name is
> used as this is unique. That said, yes there is a directory of desktop
> files shipped with the exo package with all 'known' browsers, editors
> and terminals because there is a lot of difference in the way
> applications are spawn with arguments.
>
> To give an example for terminals:
> xterm uses: xterm -e @args
> xfce4-terminal uses xterm -x @args
>
> This is not standardized in the .desktops files shipped with the
> application in situations like this, so there is no other option than
> collecting this our selfs.
>
> Nick