Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-05 Thread David Smith
1. On a vanilla KDE desktop, liferea is misconfigured by default. Need to manually change the browser as the default gnome browser fails and the fallback fails also. If you change the browser settings in liferea, it still tries to use the default gnome browser, but then fails, falls back, and

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-04 Thread David Smith
Hello, I just tested to see if this bug was still a problem in 1.8.6-1 and I wasn't able to reproduce it. If you configure your x-www-browser by running update-alternatives --config x-www-browser and then select the number that corresponds with the web browser you wish to use. After doing this,

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-04 Thread Frédéric Brière
tags 668197 - moreinfo thanks On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 08:43:00PM +0800, David Smith wrote: If you configure your x-www-browser by running update-alternatives This bug has nothing to do with x-www-browser, which doesn't get executed in the first place. I just tested to see if this bug was

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-04 Thread David Smith
As I previously wrote, try setting Open link it to Browser default, and whichever browser you selected will be ignored in favor of the (gconf?) default. If I set my browser to Konqueror and set Open Link in to Browser Default and if I right-click on a link and choose Launch Item in Browser it

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-04 Thread Frédéric Brière
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 09:47:12AM +0800, David Smith wrote: If I set my browser to Konqueror and set Open Link in to Browser Default and if I right-click on a link and choose Launch Item in Browser it opens in Konqueror. Hmm. Am I correct in assuming that if you select Default Browser, you

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-04 Thread David Smith
Hmm. Am I correct in assuming that if you select Default Browser, you then get a Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! error message? Yes. So, with Chrome installed, gtk_show_uri() will successfully take over and trigger this bug; without it, it will fail and fall back to the second call

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-03 Thread Frédéric Brière
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 06:05:54PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: I noticed that after the recent NMU of liferea opening URLs in an external browser stopped working the way I liked it. The browser value is set to x-www-browser which points to iceweasel: When I open a URL in an external

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-11-03 Thread Lars Windolf
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Frédéric Brière fbri...@fbriere.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 06:05:54PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: I noticed that after the recent NMU of liferea opening URLs in an external browser stopped working the way I liked it. The browser value is set to

Bug#668197: liferea: does not honour x-www-browser preference

2012-04-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: liferea Version: 1.8.3-0.1 Severity: normal I noticed that after the recent NMU of liferea opening URLs in an external browser stopped working the way I liked it. The browser value is set to x-www-browser which points to iceweasel: $ gconftool -g /apps/liferea/browser_id x-www-browser