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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:44:14PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the |
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> machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory). |
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> Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot |
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> had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's /etc/env.d/90dataplot file. |
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> Thus it went into /etc/profile.env. |
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> I think it's very strange that a package may modify |
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> such a vital environment variable as 'BROWSER'. |
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That is just setting the default. If you have any preferences set in |
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your user's environment, it shouldn't be affected. |
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> Is this a bug in sci-mathematics/dataplot ? |
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Not really. See `man xdg-open` for what this program does. (It is part |
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of x11-misc/xdg-utils, you may also want to look at the man page for |
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xdg-settings). The programs are *supposed* to provide |
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cross-platform/cross-desktop/cross-toolkit interoperability. Basically |
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trying to save you the problem from being either locked-down to your |
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current desktop environment's way of configuring "which program is |
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used to open which type of documents" and the problem of having to go |
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into every single program to change the "preferred browser" in their |
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settings when you decide that, say, you no longer want to use Firefox |
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and now prefers Opera. |
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In terms of a default it is a fairly sensible one, and works okay with |
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full-blown desktop environments. (Does anyone know if it works with |
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enlightenment?) So on my work compute with Gnome it is great. But on |
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my home computer with Fvwm, not so much. |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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