reopen 833268 found 833268 3.39 thanks Hi Holger,
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 07:03:09PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:The resulting desktop does not have a graphical web browser installed. www-browser is being provided by w3m. Clicking on the web browser in LXDE results in a pop-up "invalid desktop entry file: '/usr/share/applications/lxde-x-www-browser.desktop'This has been fixed in the meantime, lxde now recommends firefox-esr | firefox | www-browser, and recommends are installed by default. So closing this bug.
Thanks for taking a look at this but you have misunderstood the bug report. www-browser was satisfied at the time, by w3m, which does not provide x-www-browser (and there's no assertion anywhere that Provides: www-browser means ships an alternative for x-www-browser) The problem is there doesn't seem to be something like "x-www-browser" virtual package name corresponding to the alternatives name. Chromium, firefox, firefox-esr and epiphany provide "gnome-www-browser" which is close, but obviously excludes (e.g.) konqueror, which merely provides "info-browser, man-browser, www-browser". The proper fix here, distribution wide, is to rationalise the virtual package names for GUI browser packages. (A starting point might be to post about the issue to -desktop, and I might do that.) But for LXDE, the issue would also not occur if taskbar icons configured to point at not-existent .desktop URIs were not drawn or de-configured on session start-up. -- Jonathan Dowland
