[Surfraw-devel] POLL: graphical or text mode by default?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:27:03PM +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> According to the documentation, surfraw defaults to running a
> graphical browser, but I've just noticed the current configuration
> defaults to running a text mode browser:
> 
> defyn   SURFRAW_graphical		no
> 
> However, the default for Debian users was to run sensible-browser
> (which tries to run a graphical browser first) when run in text mode,
> so Debian users essentially defaulted to graphical mode.
> 
> So, if I change surfraw to match the docs, it should default to
> graphical mode, and (on Debian) run www-browser (text only) in text
> mode and sensible-browser (tries to run graphical browser, falls back
> to text browser) in graphical mode. On non-debian systems it (now)
> tries to detect installed browsers.
> 
> I believe the rationale was that graphical mode is better for
> beginners, and it is easy for advanced users to change the default.
> 
> However, people might be used to the current configuration and find
> the change annoying, so I thought I'd ask the list. Any strong
> opinions either way? Either mail the list or me directly.
> 
> If I don't hear any opinions to the contrary, I'll change the default
> to graphical mode.

I guess most people using a graphical browser rather use Konqueror,
Iceweasel etc. search scriptlets than surffaw, but I don't care
about the default.

Cheers,
        Moritz