LinuxQuestions.org - xdg-open, gnome-open or kde(4?)-open???

Hi there,

I've just been trying to get Muzik Brainz Picard to open my preferred browser (chromium) on my Arch system that's XFCE only. Bizarrely it was opening 'elinks'. I realised that it was doing something weird with gnome-open so I had a look through the code and found this:

Code:

if sys.version_info >= (2, 5):

    # KDE default browser

    if 'KDE_FULL_SESSION' in os.environ and os.environ['KDE_FULL_SESSION'] == 'true' and webbrowser._iscommand('kfmclient'):

        webbrowser.register('kfmclient', None, webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser(["kfmclient", "exec", "%s"]), update_tryorder=-1)

    # GNOME default browser

    if 'GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID' in os.environ and webbrowser._iscommand('gnome-open'):

        webbrowser.register('gnome-open', None, webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser(["gnome-open", "%s"]), update_tryorder=-1)





else:

    # KDE default browser

    if 'KDE_FULL_SESSION' in os.environ and os.environ['KDE_FULL_SESSION'] == 'true' and webbrowser._iscommand('kfmclient'):

        webbrowser.register('kfmclient', None, webbrowser.GenericBrowser("kfmclient exec '%s' &"))

        if 'BROWSER' in os.environ:

            webbrowser._tryorder.insert(len(os.environ['BROWSER'].split(os.pathsep)), 'kfmclient')

        else:

            webbrowser._tryorder.insert(0, 'kfmclient')

    # GNOME default browser

    if 'GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID' in os.environ and webbrowser._iscommand('gnome-open'):

        webbrowser.register('gnome-open', None, webbrowser.GenericBrowser("gnome-open '%s' &"))

        if 'BROWSER' in os.environ:

            webbrowser._tryorder.insert(len(os.environ['BROWSER'].split(os.pathsep)), 'gnome-open')

        else:

            webbrowser._tryorder.insert(0, 'gnome-open')





if 'windows-default' in webbrowser._tryorder:

    class WindowsDefault2(webbrowser.BaseBrowser):

        def open(self, url, new=0, autoraise=1):

            try:

                os.startfile(url)

            except WindowsError:

                # [Error 22] No application is associated with the specified

                # file for this operation: '<URL>'

                return False

            else:

                return True



    webbrowser._tryorder.remove('windows-default')

    webbrowser.register('windows-default-2', WindowsDefault2,

                        update_tryorder=-1)



    iexplore = webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser(

        os.path.join(os.environ.get('PROGRAMFILES', 'C:\\Program Files'),

                    'Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE'))

    webbrowser.register('iexplore', None, iexplore)

So I tried changing it to:

Code:

webbrowser.register('xdg-open', None, webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser(["xdg-open", "%s"]), update_tryorder=-1)

Which works fine for me.

Would I be right in thinking that xdg-open would work - at least for the whole linux section? Or does it nead all that gnome and kde specific junk?