No, xdg-utils are absolutely terrible. They're a mess of untested, undebuggable, underdocumented and extremely user unfriendly shell scripts that need to die an

No, xdg-utils are absolutely terrible. They're a mess of untested, undebuggable, underdocumented and extremely user unfriendly shell scripts that need to die and be replaced with something that actually had some serious design thought put into it. I've once had xdg-open be absolutely broken on my machine, scanning all of my $HOME because of a file with a space character in it [1]. Any attempt to use xdg-open would pin a CPU core for 100% while bash/find recursively traversed millions of files because of missing quote characters in a shell script. Truly the pinnacle of software engineering. I wouldn't be surprised if serious security bugs lurked somewhere in it, exploitable by web pages attempting to open maliciously crafted protocol URLs. [1] - https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-utils/commit/9816ebb3e6fd9f23e993b8b7fcbd56f92d9c9197 https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-utils/commit/9816ebb3e6fd...