Subject: Re: bug#25778: 25.1; [PATCH] Drastically simplify xdg-open check

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:31:46 -0500

Vasilij Schneidermann wrote:

> If `gvfs-open` exhibits the same behavior,

It does. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262
And https://debbugs.gnu.org/25234, as previously mentioned.

> maybe, but I still consider it upstream's fault

As you can see from that above report, they don't show any signs of
fixing it.

> if they have weird open behavior, not an area of Emacs to clumsily
> work around.

The people who implemented support for xdg-open in Emacs disagreed.