Qt apps will not open links if xdg-utils is not emerged. Not pretty sure though qt-gui is where the dependency shall be added ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup a system that do not depend on xdg-utils 2. install Qt4 apps (qupzilla/qupzilla/qpdfview) 3. click a link in one of those apps Actual Results: it does not launch any associated app. For xdg-open is not installed
The implementation of QDesktopServices for X11 platforms tries to invoke several programs to open links, one of which is xdg-open, but many others are supported (gnome-open on gnome, kfmclient on kde, ... even firefox). However only few qt applications actually need this functionality, so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add this dependency to qtgui.
Thanks Davide for your answer, well maybe shall emerge just end with a note mentionning "if links do not open, you might need to install one of the following : xdg-utils, firefox (put here the list...)" In fact, I feel the qtconfig tool badly needs an option to set the browser (or action to perform when links get clicked) Is there such an option hidden somewhere ? (I am not that familiar with Qt) In my case, I had to make a xdg-open symlink to my installed exo-open.
For the record, there is a discussion ongoing in the forums : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7650574.html
