Alias 'browse' to xdg-open
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xdg-utils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Martin Wimpress | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
The 'sensible-browser' and 'xdg-open' commands are very useful, but it's a bit unwieldy to use everywhere in docs. How about aliasing to the simple 'browse', so I can recommend things like:
sudo apt install foo; browse http://
That would be crisp clean and friendly for current users.
[Test Case]
There is currently no simple 'browse' command.
[Regression Potential]
None. There are no name collisions with /usr/bin/browse in Debian or Ubuntu.
[ Other Info ]
Although the original request was to alias 'sensible-browser' it was decided that 'xdg-open' has the more consistent behaviour (in terms of selecting the correct web browser to use) and also falls back to 'sensible-browser'.
Related branches
- Bryce Harrington (community): Approve
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Diff: 153 lines (+90/-3)6 files modifieddebian/changelog (+29/-0)
debian/control (+2/-1)
debian/patches/CVE-2020-27748.patch (+55/-0)
debian/patches/debian-changes (+2/-2)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
debian/xdg-utils.links (+1/-0)
Changed in sensible-utils (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Will Cooke (willcooke) → Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) |
summary: |
- Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser + Alias 'browse' to xdg-open |
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) |
status: | New → In Progress |
no longer affects: | sensible-utils (Ubuntu) |
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
tags: | added: patch |
description: | updated |
Advice from Chad is that we should symlink /usr/bin/browse to sensible-browser in the sensible-utils package.
Looking at that now.