Bug#859001: Let's remove BrowserLauncher from Stretch

[Emmanuel Bourg]

On 03/30/2017 04:30 PM, Ole Streicher wrote:

> One question here: the tutorial [1] says
>
> "Use the isDesktopSupported() method to determine whether the Desktop
> API is available. On the Solaris Operating System and the Linux
> platform, this API is dependent on Gnome libraries. If those libraries
> are unavailable, this method will return false. After determining that
> the Desktop API is supported, that is, the isDesktopSupported() returns
> true, the application can retrieve a Desktop instance using the static
> method getDesktop()."
>
> So, on a random (minimal) Debian (Jessie/Stretch) installation, how safe
> is it to assume that this works when default-jre is installed? And do I
> need to check if Desktop.Action.BROWSE is available or can I safely
> assume it?

Excellent question, this needs some testing with various desktop 
environments.

Emmanuel Bourg