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Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not ope


From: Suvayu Ali
Subject: Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:49:39 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30)

Hi Matt,

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:29:00PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> I have some good news (sort of).  We can force generic open by calling
> >>> >>> xdg-open like this[1]:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> DE=generic xdg-open /path/to/file
> >>> >>
> >>>
> >>> OK, this sounds useful.
> >>> Next question:  Maybe people who *are* on a Desktop environment will not 
> >>> like it if we force DE=generic onto them as well?
> >>> Or would't that make a difference?
> >>
> >> I did some quick searching, this part is a bit murky.  The generic way
> >> of setting up default application associations with mime types is
> >> through desktop files and ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.
> >>
> >> Now XFCE and xdg-open both use this, I do not think this is true for
> >> KDE, Gnome, or Gnome-like DEs though.  So for desktops that have their
> >> own config system, it is possible xdg-open's generic and the desktop
> >> specific preference might not match.
> >>
> >> Some testing by other desktop users might be useful here.  Maybe Matt
> >> and Glyn can help here (CC'ed).
> >>
> >> To test:
> >> 1. open directory with pdf/html/odt files in dired,
> >> 2. put point on one of these files,
> >> 2. run asynchronous shell command: `& DE=generic xdg-open RET'.
> >>
> >> Does it start your prefered application?  If not, we should drop this
> >> idea.  If yes, maybe it is worth it.
> >
> >
> > huh, I just tried it on a pdf file and an odt file, and nothing
> > opened;vI just got a message that the process had finished, and an
> > empty new Async Shell Command buffer.  Is it possible I'm using a
> > nonstandard xdg-open or something, or that the problem is otherwise
> > related to my system?  This is on ubuntu 13.-4, running unity.

I'm not sure what is going wrong there.  That said, all this seems
rather fragile.  The bug with gvfs-open has been there for over 3 years,
and I don't think there is even a bug-report open for exo-open.  It's
probably best to drop the idea for now.

-- 
Suvayu

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