Subject: Re: bug#9779: No usable browser found on Lubuntu

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:52:29 +0200

Hi. 

19 okt 2011 kl. 11:12 skrev Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>:

>>> So I propose the following patch (that also adds a missing customizable
>>> option for `browse-url-xdg-open' in `browse-url-browser-function'):
>>> 
>>> === modified file 'lisp/net/browse-url.el'
>>> --- lisp/net/browse-url.el    2011-08-21 01:01:12 +0000
>>> +++ lisp/net/browse-url.el    2011-10-18 06:54:01 +0000
>>> @@ -247,6 +249,8 @@ (defcustom browse-url-browser-function
>>>             :value browse-url-default-windows-browser)
>>>      (function-item :tag "Default Mac OS X browser"
>>>             :value browse-url-default-macosx-browser)
>>> +      (function-item :tag "Preferred by xdg-open from Free Desktop"
>>> +             :value browse-url-xdg-open)
>>>      (function-item :tag "GNOME invoking Mozilla"
>>>             :value browse-url-gnome-moz)
>>>      (function-item :tag "Default browser"
>> 
>> This part of the patch is redundant.  browse-url-xdg-open is called by
>> browse-url-default-browser.
> 
> `browse-url-default-browser' is just one of possible values of
> `browse-url-browser-function'.  Like users might want to customize it
> to e.g. "Default Windows browser", is it likely that some users might want
> to customize it to "Default Free Desktop browser" selected by "xdg-open"?

I don't get it. That is the default, so what is the point of customizing it to the default value?

    Jan D.