FS#30027 - [xdg-open] no longer respects DE variable

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Saturday, 26 May 2012, 15:13 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 30 May 2012, 05:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Description:

I am a former xfce user who now uses openbox, but I still prefer to use exo-open as a backend to xdg-open. Before I set the DE environmental variable to xfce to make xdg-open use exo-open, but now a detectDE function has been added to the script which overrides the DE variable set by the user. Could you modify the script so that it does not run detectDE if DE is already set? I've attached a diff showing what I mean.
   xdg-open.diff (0.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 30 May 2012, 05:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Saturday, 26 May 2012, 19:36 GMT
It would probably be better to request this change from upstream.
Comment by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Saturday, 26 May 2012, 21:08 GMT
Noted. I've submitted an identical bug report to freedesktop.org. The bug report is here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50378.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 11:31 GMT
We had a packaging issue that has been fixed in xdg-utils 1.1.0-2.20120520 - is it still an issue?
Comment by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 22:07 GMT
The latest release has fixed the problem by introducing the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable.

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