Re: [PATCHv2 6/7] web--browse: use (x-)www-browser if available

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

I do believe that Debian encourages the use of sensible-browser (that
does the BROWSER and *www-browser check itself) rather than manually
going to look at those specifications.

My impression (by analogy with policy §11.4 "Editors and pagers") is
that one is encouraged to make the default configurable at compile
time and use

 - first $BROWSER
 - then something desktop-specific
 - then the configured default

and set that default to www-browser or x-www-browser, depending on
whether your program uses X.  That way, non-Debian systems benefit
from the changes you introduce, too.

An alternative approach would be to get rid of the *www-browser and
BROWSER patches, and just use xdg-open if it's available. Which again
raises the issue of how to enforce opening the page in a new tab.

Yes, in this case that is the ideal (assuming xdg-utils has wide
enough adoption).

I think xdg-open has just as much a reason as we do to encourage
opening the page in a new tab.  Would it be hard to make that happen?