Using xdg-utils instead of htmlview, other hardwired apps

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:42:18PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:23:16 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote
> 
> > This is a major issue for me (At least in icewm... less in gmrun) as
> > the browser button needs to open an empty browser window.
> > As you said, about:blank is not portable and pointing the browser to a
> > default web-page (say fedoraproject.org) will generate useless
> > traffic.
> 
> Which browser does not understand about:blank?

It doesn't work with mimeopen. Maybe what could be needed is a wrapper
around mimeopen such that uri are opened by another application and this
other application delegates file opening to mimeopen. Is there something
similar than mimeopen, but for uri?

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Pat