KDE applications need kfmclient to open links, which is not shipped with kdebase/runtime

[Thiago Macieira]

Armin Berres wrote:
>The real Problem here is, that xdg-open calls "kfmclient openUrl" when
>it finds a KDE environment, if kfmclient is not around it will use
> sensible-browser.
>
>open_kde()
>{
>? ? which kfmclient >/dev/null || open_generic "$1"
>
>? ? kfmclient exec "$1"
>? ? kfmclient_fix_exit_code $?
>
>? ? if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>? ? ? ? exit_success
>? ? else
>? ? ? ? exit_failure_operation_failed
>? ? fi
>}
>
>Seems as if this is also not really what we want.

It's what we wanted in KDE 3.

For KDE 4, that functionality was moved to kioexec. But xdg-open hasn't 
been updated, so the old "exec" command is still present in kfmclient, but 
hidden/deprecated.

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