Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.30.6-1 Severity: wishlist Modern Gnome desktops look at the scheme of a URL (i.e the http:// part) first to determine with which application to open it. When one has multiple browsers installed and only one of them supports said scheme it will always be used to open the URL. This happens when one ctrl-clicks on a URL in gnome-terminal or uses a utility like gvfs-open (or even xdg-open which uses gvfs-open under water).
In my case I have iceweasel, epiphany and chromium installed. Only chromium currently indicates in its desktop files that it knows how to handle http schemes. And although I have made iceweasel my default browser when I ctrl-click on a URL in gnome-terminal it will always be opened with chromium. However, as soon as I added the schemes to the iceweasel.desktop file and ran update-desktop-database to regenerate the mimeinfo.cache file this changed. Now when I ctrl-click on a URL in gnome-terminal both chromium and iceweasel will be considered for opening the URL and somewhere deep in the bowels of Gnome it is discovered that I have made iceweasel my default browser and hence it opens the URL in iceweasel instead of chromium. In short exactly the behaviour I want... :) To have epiphany considered on even footing with chromium (and hopfully soon iceweasel) it should also add the http and https schemes to its desktop file. Like so: --- epiphany.desktop.ORIG 2011-02-12 21:09:08.000000000 +0100 +++ epiphany.desktop 2011-02-12 21:11:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -336,4 +336,4 @@ X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=epiphany X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=BugBuddyBugs X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.30.6 Categories=Network;GNOME;GTK;WebBrowser; -MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml; +MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; Could you please add these changes to the epiphany.desktop file? (I have sent a similar bugreport to the iceweasel maintainers) Arjan -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37 Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on: ii dbus-x11 1.4.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii epiphany-browser-data 2.30.6-1 Data files for the GNOME web brows ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii iso-codes 3.24.1-1 ISO language, territory, currency, ii libavahi-client3 0.6.28-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.28-3 Avahi common library ii libavahi-gobject0 0.6.28-3 Avahi GObject library ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.10.2-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.14-1+b1 Library for handling GObject intro ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.0-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.30.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-2 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libseed0 2.30.0-1+b1 GObject JavaScript bindings for th ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.30.2-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libsoup2.4-1 2.30.2-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.2.6-2 Web content engine library for Gtk ii libx11-6 2:1.4.1-4 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends: ii ca-certificates 20090814+nmu2 Common CA certificates ii evince 2.30.3-2 Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests: pn epiphany-extensions <none> (no description available) epiphany-webkit depends on no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
