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


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [O] bug#14605: Problem with export an .org file to .pdf does not open pdf file
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:19:24 +0200

On 22.9.2013, at 10:49, Suvayu Ali <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

Too bad, but true.  We will drop it for now, until there
is a better and more robust idea.

- Carsten

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