FS#15111 - [xdg-utils] [Patch] adjustments are needed to work with recent DEs

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Monday, 15 June 2009, 08:41 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Thursday, 13 August 2009, 11:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Jan de Groot (JGC)
Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The xdg-utils provides several scripts like xdg-open which open a url/file in the application defined by the currently running desktop environment. (e.g. Dolphin on KDE, Nautilus on Gnome etc.)

The upstream project is nearly unmaintained and that last release was from 2007. (most code is even a lot older)

There are several problems:
* distro-specific hacks and hard coded path that might not work on Arch
* only KDE3 is supported (and even that is broken)
* some security problems (desktop files; browser)

I added (hopefully) lall maintainers of different DEs here. So you should have a look if xdg-utils still works with the recent version of your DE.

Our goal should be to create several patches and send them upstream. I have created a git repo for management. If you have some patches attach them here or send them to me. Make sure to not break older DEs or other distros.

Upstream repo: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/
My git repo: http://git.archlinux.de/xdg-utils/

And here is a PKGBUILD: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27274
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Closed by  Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 11:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  This will be fixe upstream by new maintainers
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 15 June 2009, 09:14 GMT
Instead of forking this locally, can't we apply for upstream maintainership at freedesktop.org?
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Monday, 15 June 2009, 09:29 GMT
Go ahead and ask ;-). Sure, that would make things easier. My intention wasn't to fork anyway but colecting some patches andthen ask upstream to apply them.

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