[debbugs-tracker] bug#25759: closed (Should 'surf' depend on 'xprop' and 'dmenu'?)

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> Should 'surf' depend on 'xprop' and 'dmenu'?
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> Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:12:05 +0100
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> The Guix package for the 'surf' browser (from suckless project) does not depend 
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> Thus, when you only install 'surf' (and do not have 'xprop' and 'dmenu' 
> installed), you can only open a new URL, by re-running 'surf' with that new URL 
> as command-line argument, like "surf example.org". But it's not possible to 
> open a new URL from within 'surf' itself because that requires both 'xprop' and 
> 'dmenu'. This is comprehensible in these lines of the code:
>         http://git.suckless.org/surf/tree/config.def.h#n38
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> On #guix IRC channel, we agreed that 'surf' should depend on these packages:
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>         <mekeor> the package for the 'surf' browser (from suckless) has a 
> similar issue: if you only install surf, you can't open a new URL within the 
> browser because that requires the xprop package.  what do you think about that 
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>         <Sleep_Walker> you mean dmenu, right?
>         <mekeor> Sleep_Walker: yeah, that would be awesome
>         <Sleep_Walker> ah
>         <Sleep_Walker> right
>         <mekeor> Sleep_Walker: uhm... i'm not sure. maybe it's both?
>         <Sleep_Walker> ctrl+l
>         <Sleep_Walker> that IIRC runs dmenu to have URL entered
>         <mekeor> Sleep_Walker: it's Ctrl-g for me
>         <Sleep_Walker> and yes, that should be fixed as well
>         <Sleep_Walker> mekeor: right
>         <mekeor> alright.
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> Unless you have a different opinion, I'm going to submit a patch next week 
> which implements this dependency.
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