extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Jeff Mitchell]

>>> kfmclient == kde-specific, xdg-open == desktop-independent.
>> Err, so that doesn't make sense.  Wouldn't you want to set your 
>> preferences in a desktop-independent manner, and have kfmclient honor 
>> them?  Admittedly I don't know much of anything about xdg-open, but I do 
>> know it's the desktop-independent analogue, which makes me think that 
>> kfmclient should use it, not the other way around.
> 
> How do you think xdg-open can implement "open a page in konqueror"?
> It needs to use kfmclient for that - which, as the name indicates (well, with
> some historical baggage :), is the client for talking to konqueror.
> Please, please, open xdg-open in a text editor, I think it will make the overall picture clearer ;)
> It's just a shell script which delegates the actual work to desktop-specific tools -- like kfmclient.
> => If you want a desktop-independent solution, just call xdg-open.

Okay, I'll look into these more.  My understanding was that xdg stored 
which programs to use, i.e. a mapping of mime types... text/html => 
/usr/bin/konqueror or whatever, preferences which could be set by 
various xdg-aware apps.  So clearly I misunderstood how it was all set up.

--Jeff