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[Bug 1612255] [NEW] url-dispatcher should use xdg-open as a fallback if not in Touch

 

Public bug reported:

On our standard desktop product with unity7, url-dispatcher does not
work.

It would be nice if it did, as we start having pieces of Touch come over
to the desktop, convergence style.

For example, unity8-greeter has support for opening apps inside the
session (via launcher or indicators).  It uses a combination of a system
daemon and url-dispatcher (inside the session) to do this.  But this
doesn't work on unity7.

In this case, I could patch unity8-greeter to do something different for
unity7, but it seems like it would be nicer to make url-dispatcher a
little more general.

If it's not in a Touch environment, the url-dispatcher service could
just launch xdg-open for each URL it gets.

** Affects: url-dispatcher (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  url-dispatcher should use xdg-open as a fallback if not in Touch

Status in url-dispatcher package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On our standard desktop product with unity7, url-dispatcher does not
  work.

  It would be nice if it did, as we start having pieces of Touch come
  over to the desktop, convergence style.

  For example, unity8-greeter has support for opening apps inside the
  session (via launcher or indicators).  It uses a combination of a
  system daemon and url-dispatcher (inside the session) to do this.  But
  this doesn't work on unity7.

  In this case, I could patch unity8-greeter to do something different
  for unity7, but it seems like it would be nicer to make url-dispatcher
  a little more general.

  If it's not in a Touch environment, the url-dispatcher service could
  just launch xdg-open for each URL it gets.

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