Re: [Tracker] t-s-t patch to remove gnome-open in favour of xdg-open

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On 1/11/07, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Deji Akingunola wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 1/11/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Please review and comment if this patch is a good idea or not:
> >> It removes the code for the fallback option of opening folders with
> >> nautilus when xdg-utils is not installed. The consequence is that one
> >> must have xdg-utils installed for this to work.
> > What's the reasoning behind this? The fallback is good for folks
> > without xdg-utils, for instance in Fedora, we don't have xdg-utils.
> > Please drop this change.
>
> there is no runtime dependency on xdg-utils
>
> the patch falls back to gnome-open if the spawn of xdg-open fails so it
> should be ok?

The patch actually gets rid of the fallback and that's why Deji complains.