On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 08:31:11AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote:
"kfmclient exec,gnome-open,kmail,mozilla-thunderbird,thunderbird,evolution";A Gnome user will be offended if you spool up the entire KDE environment just to launch a URL; a KDE user will be similarly offended by gnome-open. Further, if I'm a Gnome user, I may have KDE on my system, and kfmclient exec may work, but it's likely to not be the browser I *really* want used.
The standard that's developing is that you don't invoke a KDE program unless KDE_FULL_DESKTOP is set and you don't invoke a Gnome session unless GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is set.
You should also go looking for the distribution specific wrappers that do this already.
On SUSE at least there is a: desktop-launch $URL
Not sure of its standard status, but it at least referenced by google on some Freedesktop.org lists.
Ciao, Marcus