patches from Gentoo



Leo wrote:

> * Andrey G. Grozin (2006-12-27 00:41 +0600) said:
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 1. The list of browsers tried by xmaxima looks antiquated: who now
>> remembers what was netscape? A better list is in the patch:
>>
>> diff -U2 --recursive
>> maxima-5.11.0-orig/interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Menu.tcl
>> maxima-5.11.0/interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Menu.tcl
>> --- maxima-5.11.0-orig/interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Menu.tcl  2006-12-09
>> 20:52:11.000000000 +0100
>> +++ maxima-5.11.0/interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Menu.tcl       2006-12-26
>> 22:59:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
>>       } else {
>>
>> -    set selectedbrowser mozilla
>> +    set selectedbrowser firefox
>>
>> -    foreach b { firefox mozilla konqueror epiphany galeon amaya netscape }
>> {
>> +    foreach b { firefox konqueror epiphany galeon mozilla opera } {
>>   if { ! [catch {exec which $b} ] } {
>>   set selectedbrowser $b
> 
> Still not the optimal solution. Seems Fedora has a patch to use
> xdg-utils to select the preferred web browser. I have included the
> maintainer Rex Dieter in the CC.

Agreed. (-:

Attached is the patch to enable use of xdg-utils in place of hard-coded
calls to web browses, ps/pdf apps.

-- Rex
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