[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
As mentioned in the Bug #562476, comment #5, see [1] for details : Yes, it's the same issue for sensible-browser too. This is a long-standing issue, and it is well known that the alternatives system sucks for this type of thing. The alternatives system is not a user-configurable preference, but is a system-wide preference that can only be configured by the root user. In an ideal world, applications shouldn't be using x-www-browser and gnome-www- browser at all, as there are other ways to do this [1] : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control- center/+bug/562476/comments/5 ** Changed in: sensible-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 Title: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
Ubuntu Karmic Koala, here. My experience: I installed Google Chrome to give a try. Now, when I click GIMP help, it opens the page via Chrome. For sure my System Preferences Preferred Applications set default browser way leads to Firefox but GIMP had its settings as sensible-browser %s. And the command sensible-browser opens Google's Chrome. Now that -from this report- I know about the situation but for many people its very weird to see lets say Chrome as if its some kind of default browser of Ubuntu. Regards... -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
From IRC room for Lucid: Lucid user a) with Chromium as default gets Google Chrome for sensible-browser b) with Firefox as default gets Epiphany for sensible-browser -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
** Changed in: sensible-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
** Package changed: debianutils (Ubuntu) = sensible-utils (Ubuntu) -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #520843 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520843 ** Also affects: debianutils (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520843 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
** Changed in: debianutils (Debian) Status: Unknown = New -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
This is tricky. sensible-browser is called by xdg-open in the fallback case. So if we add smarts to sensible-browser to call xdg-open for some desktops, then we risk the fallbacks not matching up perfectly and an infinite loop. It seems like xdg-open is the smartest/most-toplevel of the scripts that open URLs. So how about either of these options? A) Switch OO.o to use xdg-open B) Copy the logic in sensible-browser to the generic fallback case of xdg-open (instead of calling sensible-browser) and then make sensible- browser just be a call to xdg-open. You'd also have to deal with the fact that sensible-browser should work without a URL, but xdg-open does not. (A) seems less intrusive; (B) seems more widely useful but much less likely to be accepted. Chris, you didn't like (A)? -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
** Changed in: debianutils (Ubuntu) Milestone: None = ubuntu-9.10-beta -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 204858] Re: sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support
I've run into this bug today. I've read sensible-browser's code before reading this bug report and came to the same conclusion as Chris. sensible-browser is currently broken because if it detects a Gnome desktop, it directly invokes gnome-www-browser but doing this actually *bypasses* what the user configures in System Preferences Preferred Applications. Bypassing the user's preferences is NOT sensible. -- sensible-browser should use xdg-open for Gnome / KDE / XFCE support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204858 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
