On 04/26/2011 09:56 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > You have 24 hours to comment on this news item. Sorry to put it so > bluntly but this is required for major security bug (#364973). > > See attachment.
Based on some comments posted here, and IRC, here is an updated news item.
Title: Upgrade to GLIB 2.28 Author: GNOME Team <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2011-04-26 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <dev-libs/glib-2.28 The way of setting default URI handlers has changed since dev-libs/glib-2.28 and above. If you used the GConf registry to set them before, they will now be ignored. If you use GNOME, you must upgrade gnome-session and gnome-control-center and set your default browser/mail-client again. If you don't use GNOME, you should ensure that the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list has the following content: [Added Associations] x-scheme-handler/http=$browser_name.desktop; x-scheme-handler/https=$browser_name.desktop; x-scheme-handler/mailto=$mailclient_name.desktop; Replace $browser_name.desktop and $mailclient_name.desktop with the appropriate file from /usr/share/applications that can handle http/https/mailto URIs. The system-wide version of the file is often at /usr/share/applications/defaults.list instead. Please make sure that your browsers and mail clients have been upgraded to the latest stable versions before doing all this. More information about using defaults.list and mimeapps.list at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
