On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:03 +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> Since a while, bug-buddy has stopped being able to recognize Epiphany as an 
> application that exists in Gnome's bugzilla. It seems this is due to the 
> following combination of facts:
> 
> - epiphany's executable is identified as epiphany-browser in 
> /usr/share/applications/epiphany.desktop
> - epiphany sets its name to 'epiphany' using g_set_prgname in its main() 
> function (src/ephy-main.c).
> - when epiphany crashes, gnome-breakpad calls g_get_prgname to get epiphany's 
> name, yielding 'epiphany'
> - gnome-breakpad calls bug-buddy using the retrieved name, like so: 
> 'bug-buddy --appname epiphany --pid xxxx'.
> - bug-buddy tries to find an application called 'epiphany' but only finds 
> 'epiphany-browser' and thus concludes it cannot sent the bug report anywhere.
> 
> Epiphany should probably set its name to 'epiphany-browser' to match its 
> executable.

Right. If anyone does work on this before I try my hand at it, please
keep the name set by g_set_prgname the exact same as the name of the
desktop, to make it work also with GNOME Shell, in addition to bug
buddy.

Thanks!

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]>
Debian

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