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Add a query mechanism to determine the 'preferred' application
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Exo
Component:
Helpers

Comments

Description Stephan Arts editbugs 2012-03-18 15:38:27 CET 
Web-browsers, like chromium, want to know if they are configured as the preferred application used in the desktop-environment. Currently, exo does not provide an interface to determine the preferred webbrowser, for example.

That is why I propose a query mechanism to determine the preferred application.
Comment 1 Stephan Arts editbugs 2012-03-18 15:40:31 CET 
Created attachment 4268 
Patch to add --query option to exo-helper
Comment 2 Stephan Arts editbugs 2012-03-18 23:03:33 CET 
Another thought on this bug, maybe you want --get and --set functions, so a browser can choose to configure itself as the default if the user chooses it.
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-03-26 13:21:16 CEST 
I doubt exo-open will be any standard, so maybe this is not the right place. Sound more like an xdg discussion how to implement this.
Comment 4 Git Bot editbugs 2017-06-16 05:23:53 CEST 
Stephan Arts referenced this bugreport in commit e9fb7651e209862b2821db5ed8e73075bf8f05d4

Add a query mechanism to determine the preferred application (Bug #8579)

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/commit?id=e9fb7651e209862b2821db5ed8e73075bf8f05d4
Comment 5 Sean Davis editbugs 2017-06-16 05:25:04 CEST 
This patch is lightweight and does provide some added usefulness for exo.  Applied in the above commit.

Bug #8579

Reported by:
Stephan Arts
Reported on: 2012-03-18
Last modified on: 2017-06-16

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
2 users

Version

Version:
unspecified
Target Milestone:
Exo 0.3

Attachments

Patch to add --query option to exo-helper (3.03 KB, patch)
2012-03-18 15:40 CET , Stephan Arts 		no flags

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