xdg-open spitting out debug messages on start

[Daniel]

$ xdg-open readme.pdf
<unknown program name>(5811)/ ClientApp::doIt: Creating ClientApp
kioclient(5811) ClientApp::kde_open: KUrl("file:///home/testuser/readme.pdf")
$ xdg-open --version
xdg-open 1.0.1
$ uname -a
Linux 2.6.32-33-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:08:37 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS \n \l

$

[Daniel (dabokey)]

1.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

2.

$ apt-cache policy xdg-utils
xdg-utils:
  Installed: 1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

3. I expected xdg-open to open the PDf without the "<unknown program name>" and "kioclient" debug messages.

4. The PDF opened, but the konsole displayed the "<unknown program name>" and "kioclient" debug messages.

[Nicholas Guriev (mymedia)]

It seems these tracing messages are outputted by the kde-open5 utility. I do not think we should hide at xdg-utils level any messages from underlying tools. However, you may redirect unneeded output on your own.

 $ xdg-open readme.pdf >/dev/null