[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I can confirm this is not resolved. Please prioritize a fix as I cannot log into Zoom (SSO based login). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Hello, This bug is not solved at all. After having hit it (xubuntu 21.10, Chromium 96.0.4664.45, snap2.53.2, I still can not open .vmrc URLs. When looking at the master git repo here : https://github.com/jdstrand/snapd/blob/5190924a895e6344b57e9670727bf079d014dbe3/usersession/userd/launcher_test.go#L78 one read that the whitelisted allowedURL schemes are still hard-coded. Seriously? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I'm sorry to say we were forced to move from Chromium to Google Chrome (unconfined deb package). I am not at all happy with that, as our software is now less secure than it was before (with the unconfined Chromium). But I never managed to get the snap running for my users, snaps are just not designed to work in networks. Missing URL handlers was the least of our problems. Not being able to access network shares and snaps caching into the users's homes was what made it unusable. Very sad that a decision that supposedly was meant to make Chromium more secure has caused right the opposite for us. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Snapd got some extra url handlers added to the whitelist but still not some of those described in the description and comments (irc, ssh, git) ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I recently installed Xubuntu 20.04 and I fail to open magnet links via qBittorrent (installed via apt-get, v4.1.7) : > snap --version snap2.48.1 snapd 2.48.1 series 16 ubuntu 20.04 kernel 5.4.0-58-generic Using xdg-open it goes well, so seems like the bug discussed here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Fixed for me and i'm on 2.42 Eoan. Dialog appears to choose the app to open. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Snap 2.45.1 is out now and solves this -- I believe the issue can be marked fixed released. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
@akkzilla is right, this is more like a problem of general intercommunication of snaps. It probably needs a decent framework for snaps as a whole, not only the chromium snap. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Snaps do have that concept of plugs and sockets. Shouldn't that be the way of solving this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I'm puzzled by all the people tying this to chromium for zoom. I use firefox and it doesn't work any better there, especially with the zoom- client from snap where it doesn't work at all. Using the snap zoom-client, typing xdg-open 'zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&... (using URL I got by making a test meeting on zoom.us/test) from a shell opens a google search in firefox. Clicking on the same link in firefox does nothing. sudo snap refresh snapd --beta doesn't help. If I install a zoom deb downloaded from zoom.us, xdg-open works on some zoom links, though not all of them. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Just tested it too, magnet links work for me as well! Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Magnet links are working. I just tried opening it in Chromium snap and I got the "xdg-open" prompt and than a window with selection between qBittorrent and Transmission. I selected qBittorrent and it opened the magnet link. $ snap version snap2.45 snapd 2.45 series 16 ubuntu 20.04 kernel 5.7.0-xanmod1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
MS teams & magnet: links both just throw up a "xdg-open" prompt but nothing happens when you "allow". This should be fixed and released now, right ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Nevermind my last comment. This works in chromium (no idea about snapd). To get this to work in chromium, first make sure it works for xdg-open. Click on the link that you want to be opened automatically in some application. When it downloaded, right-click on it (the button that appeared on the bottom) and select "Always open files of this type"; this will cause chromium to use xdg-open next time you open a file of that type. To make xdg-open work, run "xdg-mime query filetype the-downloaded-file", this should print the correct mime type. Then run "xdg-mime query default that-mime-type", this should print the desktop file that you want to use, aka "myapplication.desktop". Inside that .desktop then (.local/share/applications/the-file.desktop), there should be the lines Exec=/path/your/application and MimeType=that-mime-type Anyway, plenty of tutorial on xdg on the net. I missed the chromium trick to make it use xdg-open in the first place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I am also affected by this horrible show stopper bug. Using Arch Linux and chromium browser. Seeing that this has been reported 8 months ago and the severity is set to "undecided" for chromium, it is clear that I'll have to start to use a different browser. This saddens me a lot :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Hi @jean-helou, The comment you see was referencing this PR: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8289 which unfortunately did not end up making it into 2.44, however I have confirmed that it is in 2.45, which should be released soon. If you would like to test out those changes, please install the snapd from edge: ``` snap install snapd --edge || snap refresh snapd --edge ``` But note that the edge channel may be less stable than the other channels as it automatically pulls in changes from git master daily and so may have more bugs/incomplete features than other channels in snapd. You can always switch back to stable snapd snap with: ``` snap refresh snapd --stable ``` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I am happy to see zoom supported, but I can't help being disapointed that slack, vscode, irc, magnet etc still arent. I found this https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8398#issuecomment-607570865 comment on a PR to add slack which seems to hint that the situation would be resolve in snapd 2.44.2 > dpkg -l | grep snapd says > ii snapd 2.44.3+20.04 > amd64Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages A quick test showed that neither slack nor vscode liveshare github login worked correctly :( is there something wrong with ubuntu's xdg-desktop- portal or is there a special pacakge to install that woudln't be installed by default ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Hi folks, the change that @osomon referenced is available in the snapd snap beta channel, can you try the following to see if you are able to open zoom links from the chromium snap now: ``` snap install snapd --beta || snap refresh snapd --beta ``` I tested this on Ubuntu 20.04 and snapd 2.44.5 with the zoom-client snap revision 75 and the chromium snap revision 1135 and it all worked as expected (I used this URL to test zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=123456789==0=chrome=Betty). We are in the process of releasing 2.44.5, and hope to have it available on stable for all users ASAP, but the 20.04 release and a company-wide sprint last week have slightly delayed deploying this fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Support for the zoommtg:// protocol was added to snapd with https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/commit/7f678b923c2af8d899bdb2ba95440d62c1c74123. The core snap from the edge channel (2.45~pre1+git1800.7238107) doesn't seem to have the fix yet, though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I also encouter this problem. Each time someone share a zoom link, chronium cannot open it. This is kind of annoying since it is happenning all day long at each meeting. I'm thinking about using a different browser just because this bug does not seem importantenough to be solved. I hope someone takes the time to fix this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Well, you have the Code of Conduct, and we do not have normal software that would not break user systems. Is there any correlation here we cannot discuss because of the Code of Conduct. I am very sorry that my rudeness upset such unique snowflakes as the snap team. The problem is described two years and still present, the importance is "Wishlist". Is somewhere an open technical discussion about solving the problem in Ubuntu, other than the request to submitting url schemes to the whitelist? In my opinion, this is a fundamental architectural problem and it cannot be solved by PR from a third-party developer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Jusr wanted to comment on Samuele Pedroni referring to "rudeness" – then I saw that Balazs Gyurak already did: Yes, I saw the comment that has subsequently been removed from this forum post, and Samuele was completely right to object. Please remove this part of your article. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Seeing that this bug got considerable attention, I'd like to highlight another bug that is even more serious (in my opinion) which relates to Chromium being snap: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1741074 This other bug affects more people, breaks numerous apps (including Gnome's own extension site!) and there is absolutely no workaround for it. I'm raising this here hoping that it can obtain similar levels of attention as this one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Sven, allow me to contribute a few corrections/clarifications to your article: « but as they use Chromium (the pre-installed open source version of the Google Chrome browser) » This is incorrect, chromium is not pre-installed. One has to go and install it from the package manager/software store. « ... and I do not understand the reaction - Samuele Pedroni (pedronis) wrote on 2020-04-23: "Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is not conductive to collaboration, and will be moderated." » Samuele referred to a comment that contained offensive language (thus violating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct) that was removed to keep the conversation civil. « $ snap remove chromium $ sudo apt install chromium-browser » Not every piece of advice on the internet should be followed blindly. The chromium-browser deb package is now a transitional package that installs the snap, so the above will obviously be a no-op. There are details about why this was done at https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium- in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-transition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Hi Sven Meyer, I'd like to address one bit of your article: "... and I do not understand the reaction - Samuele Pedroni (pedronis) wrote on 2020-04-23: "Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is not conductive to collaboration, and will be moderated."" The reason for Samuele's comment was that there was a user in this thread who posted a comment full of swearing (with the F-word) in a non- constructive way. That comment was removed rather quickly, so I believe not many people saw it. Samuele's comment on its own indeed can be confusing. I fully agree with him that rudeness is not the way to go. For the record, I am also a frustrated Ubuntu user who suffers from the same bug, but I felt it important to point this out, to be fair to both sides. I fully agree with your article otherwise, but IMO it might be better to leave out this part. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
(I just wrote an article about this issue. Feel free to comment before I
publish it.)
# Ubutu 20.04 was just released and is broken right from the start (as
is 19.10)
Millions of people have started working from home and may have even done
a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, but as they use Chromium (the pre-
installed open source version of the Google Chrome browser) and want to
join an online video conference with zoom .. it does not work! Joining
slack from a link ... does not work! What's going on ???
TDLR : The team responsible for the snap (Snappy) software manager at
Ubuntu messed it up. They do not understand the implications and
severity of this bug since almost 2 years, and there is no easy fix at
the moment.
Your options:
1) Use Firefox instead of Chromium browser, although Firefox (still) has
(sometimes ?) an issue with opening a zoom link. When prompted to run
`xdg-open` it does not work the first time, you have to do it a 2nd time,
(only) then it works.
# Background story (skip if you are not interested):
Working in IT for many years, I have praised Ubuntu as a free, stable,
non-intrusive, great alternative to Windows in recent years, which (now) works
out of the box on most hardware. I regarded it now as a great replacement (even
from a usability point of view) for the average (non technical) user.
My partner is a totally (!) non-technical person, working as an online language
teacher for her living, but I was able to convince her to get rid of Windows
just after she bought a new laptop and let me replace it with Ubuntu 18.04 MATE.
Everything worked fine, which is good because otherwise she would blame me that
she looses her income because I replaced Windows with Ubuntu. It's also good me
for, as every hour I have to spend on administrating her computer is one paid
hour less on my side.
A few months ago, I upgraded to 19.04, which is not supported with new
updates any more, so now that Ubuntu 20.04 came out on 24 April 2020, I
thought it would be a good idea to anyhow wipe the whole setup and do a
fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 MATE.
# END - Background story
# The problem : Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 + Chromium + zoom, Telegram, slack ...
(many desktop apps)
Starting with a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 MATE, suddenly it was not
possible any more to launch zoom from the online learning platform, and
for the heck I could not get it to work quickly (had to give my Arch
Linux / Manjaro Laptop to my partner so that she could in time conduct
her online teaching).
Some google research surfaced the following facts which I will try to
summarize here :
* Since Ubuntu 19.10, Chromium is installed by default using the snap
(Snappy) package management system [https://snapcraft.io]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)]
* For some reason ("security" ? - to be filled in)
"snapd has a hard-coded list of allowed URL schemes. Currently that is limited
to "http", "https", "mailto", "snap".
which break a lot of desktop apps, not limited to zoom, but also many other
important widely used ones as well (Telegram, github, slack, ... looks like
"every polular app")
This bug has already been reported 2018-06-14 !
[https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873]
Reading through the discussion, I could not believe that this bug is already
that old (almost 2 years as of 28 April 2020) and has not been fixed by now !
I think this is a major issue !! Maybe I have overlooked a great solution, but
if we aim for making Ubuntu a great platform for everybody !!, it should work
(at least) with most commonly used software and scenarios out of the box.
Especially these days, as many people started working from home, and
many people trying to use zoom for the first time (zoom's security and
privacy issues left aside for the moment) or slack, or ... With a recent
(19.10 or 20.04) Ubuntu install and it simply does not work ! .. and
there is no easy fix?
How will that affect the adoption and reputation of Ubuntu, if the same setup
works perfectly fine on Windows and Apple, but is very hard to fix on Ubuntu ?
If I would be into conspiracy theories, I would even consider that it is a
(paid) attack against the Ubuntu ecoystem - that's how severe I see it, and to
my surprise the snap developers just don't get it.
If Ubuntu / snap team does not want to limit Ubuntu adoption to developers who
are forced to compile a patch by themselves, leaving out millions of users who
just want to have a trustworthy, free and stable platform, than any "solution"
which requires more than 1 click to confirm that Chromium is (this time /
always) allowed to open a certain app, is just useless.
I totally agree with ...
Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl) wrote on 2020-03-23: "If the approach so
far is to individually whitelist classes of links, surely can't this be better
dealt with by doing something similar to how Chromium responds to me clicking
on a downloaded file: it asks me if it's okay to have
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
@Gilyen: Yes, of course -- or open the link in Firefox. But that gets really annoying after a while. I was hoping for a snap package that fixes this without me having to build from source. Because if I'm going to go that far, I'll just remove the damh hard-coded whitelist completely. It's one of the most horrible ideas I've seen in a long time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
This bug also affects me on a fresh 20.04 install ... To Jacob: You can just copy the link, by right clicking the "join meeting" button, then open a terminal and type $ xdg-open "zoommtg://...[your meeting link]..." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Is there a way to get a snapd package with the merged PR for zoommtg:// without recompiling from source? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Seriously guys, I mean why the heck would you replace something that works like a charm (normal apt, .deb files or PPAs) with something that's still obviously not ready to be thrown at people's machines forcing them to use snaps instead of regular .deb. you don't even leave the user the choice of doing otherwise. Shame on the Open Source community for choosing to adopt such methods. Plus the themes on snaps are broken as well. Like the mouse cursor is white by default for my system, but inside most of snap apps it turns smaller and black too. Why? Cause snap is still to this day a pretty broken and inconsistent POS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
In short, the best way to improve the situaition is sudo apt purge snapd. Does snapd solve any user's problem? No one. Does it break usual apps behavior? Absolutely, as in this case. Why I should to PR for repairing things that works perfectly for years in any desktop behavior before you came? Did you forget to take your meds? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
With respect, I think focusing on an improved response time for the PRs is missing the forest for the trees. The vast majority of users that experience these bugs won't be the ones to make Ubuntu SSO & GitHub accounts and contribute PRs to fix it. They're just going to get a silent launch failure, and tell their social circles about how Ubuntu doesn't work. For snap's long term success, there needs to be a stronger focus on a good user experience or we're just going to lose users. The only reason we don't see more of the errors now is that the default browser (Firefox) isn't shipped as a snap, and I really don't like being happy about that. Fundamentally I think there needs to be a bigger focus on a user- friendly solution, something like the proposal to make all system registered apps work by default, or anything else like that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
FYI, in recent PR discussions[1] we've acknowledged that we should make it easier to allow different URL schemes into snapd and I laid out some criteria/process ideas on how to make this happen, and I applied that criteria to the zoommtg PR and it was merged quickly. I discussed with Samuele that we could make this go even faster if we codify things for reviewers as well as some other implementation details. In short, today, the snapd team is in a position to be more responsive with adding new url schemes and we'll make it so we can go even faster. For people who want snapd to support new URL schemes I suggest doing one of: * if you are able, submitting a PR to snapd[2] for the URL schemes you are interested in * filing a new bug[3] for the requested url scheme (eg, "add support for url scheme ...") and then someone can take a look Thanks [1]https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#pullrequestreview-362900171 [2]https://github.com/snapcore/snapd [3]https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+filebug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Contributing to the discussion with rudeness is not conductive to collaboration, and will be moderated. We do take the fact that people are recompiling snapd because of this as a signal that we need to think whether there are possible ways we can improve the situation. ** Changed in: snapd Assignee: (unassigned) => Samuele Pedroni (pedronis) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
There is no one objective reason to whitelisting link schemes for applications. Usual URLs worked well for years for iteract between apps, but here you brought the fucking snap, which doesn’t improve anything, but also breaks the normal behavior of other applications. Please bring back the normal URLs behavior or go fuck. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
And then people are surprised why Linux community is no negative to Snap. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
This also affects the scheme "jetbrains", it would be nice to login to my JetBrains Toolbox again via Chromium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
To @kfunk @axet @troyready: That worked perfectly for me. Thank you so much!!! For those like me for whom these are all magical incantations, here's my sequence aggregated from advice above: Press the Ubuntu/Super key and type "Software" and pick the one that is called "Software & Updates". On the first tab, make sure "source code" is checked. Then, open a terminal and paste the following (line by line up to the apt line, then the rest can go together): ``` apt-get build-dep snapd TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) cd $TMPDIR apt-get -y source snapd sed -i 's/"http", "https", "mailto", "snap", "help"/"http", "https", "mailto", "snap", "help", "apt", "zoommtg", "slack"/' snapd-*/usersession/userd/launcher.go sed -i 's/!osutil.GetenvBool(reExecKey, true)/true/' snapd-*/cmd/cmd_linux.go cd snapd-* && dch -l$(hostname) fix_missing_app_types cd .. cd snapd-* && DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck debuild -b -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i snapd_*.deb sudo service snapd restart killall snap ``` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
@cpbl see https://askubuntu.com/a/158872 ("Software & Updates" in the
menu now)
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[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
wow, @kfunk and @axet, thank you so much for this effort! Alas, I get stuck at the very first step: sudo apt-get build-dep snapd Reading package lists... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I just found the issue second ago. It is related to SNAP_REEXEC behavior. The idea is to run snap from snap_core installed from snap. If you have system snap installed it will be reexec'd from snap core. To disable it you need to change the source. Just run this before compilation and you will be ok: sed -i 's/!osutil.GetenvBool(reExecKey, true)/true/' snapd-*/cmd/cmd_linux.go -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Alexey I'm having the same experience as you. It's uncanny, feels like something obvious is missing. Not sure how it's working for Kevin above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Seems like a new linux virus preventing me from running compiled snap. Not the right place to report but who knows? When I recompile the snap package and changed "help" output to "refresh !!! and remove snaps" and unpack the content of resulting file into 123/. I reinstall the system package and result md5 sum look like this: axet@axet-laptop:~/local$ md5sum 123/usr/bin/snap /usr/bin/snap f6639f5060dcd23506082f6ff0699f72 123/usr/bin/snap f6639f5060dcd23506082f6ff0699f72 /usr/bin/snap axet@axet-laptop:~/local$ When I run the package from ./123/usr/bin/snap I got my "!!! and remove snaps" but when I ran the same file (same md5) from /usr/bin/snap I got the old output. axet@axet-laptop:~/local$ ./123/usr/bin/snap The snap command lets you install, configure, refresh !!! and remove snaps. Snaps are packages that work across many different Linux distributions, enabling secure delivery and operation of the latest apps and utilities. ... axet@axet-laptop:~/local$ /usr/bin/snap The snap command lets you install, configure, refresh and remove snaps. Snaps are packages that work across many different Linux distributions, enabling secure delivery and operation of the latest apps and utilities. ... Even when I copy my /usr/bin/snap into 11 file and run it from another location I still getting my new "!!! and remove" string. Seems like somthing (bug or virus) load old snap package when I run it from /usr/bin/snap location and when I read the same file I get my actual file system data. Not sure what kind of virus, trojan or system nvme, encryption or kernel bug I have... Maybe anyone knows? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
For some reason I unable to rebuild snapd following #29 instruction. All goes fine, but in the end xdg-open wont work. I've checked /var/log/syslog and it full of: chromium_chromium.desktop[1674]: user-open error: Supplied URL scheme "magnet" is not allowed What is interesting, when I'm changing the source code of launcher.go I also changed the line with error text to "Supplied !!! URL scheme"... but in syslog error line still appears the same with out "!!!" this conclude changes never goes into the /usr/bin/snap binary file. I tried to remove ~/.cache/go-build /tmp/go-build turn off wifi, but still resulting package still produce old version of error text. I have no idea how to rebuild package correctly, following #28 not working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Okay, after having manually copied and dissected a Zoom URL for the Xth time I finally got annoyed. I've updated the instructions from comment #27, here's a possible work- around by rebuilding the snapd sources: ``` apt-get build-dep snapd TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) cd $TMPDIR apt-get -y source snapd sed -i 's/"http", "https", "mailto", "snap", "help"/"http", "https", "mailto", "snap", "help", "apt", "zoommtg", "slack"/' snapd-*/usersession/userd/launcher.go cd snapd-* && dch -l$(hostname) fix_missing_app_types cd .. cd snapd-* && DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck debuild -b -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i snapd_*.deb sudo service snapd restart killall snap ``` Restart the client app. After that opening Zoom URLs in Chromium just works for me. What a relief. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Also affecting Slack. Not possible to login to Slack app and I needed to switch to Firefox for now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Can anyone help with a workaround suggestion while we're waiting for this to get fixed? I normally manually patch package issues like this, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working in this case: ``` TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) cd $TMPDIR apt-get -y source snapd sed -i 's/"http", "https", "mailto", "snap", "help"/"http", "https", "mailto", "snap", "help", "apt", "zoommtg", "slack"/' snapd-2.42.1+19.10/usersession/userd/launcher.go cd snapd-2.42.1+19.10 && dch -l$(hostname) fix_missing_app_types cd .. cd snapd-2.42.1+19.10$(hostname)1 && DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck debuild -b -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i snapd_2.42.1+19.10$(hostname)1_amd64.deb ``` It seems to be updating /usr/bin/snap properly, but the xdg-open is still blocked. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
I agree @cpbl -- there are almost certainly better options available. Maciej Borzecki detailed a good proposal at https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#issuecomment-585721100 (with some follow-on thoughts added by jdstrand at https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#pullrequestreview-362900171), but at this point it's up to someone to implement it. I just did the easy/lazy small Zoom PR, since I'm just an internet rando without time at the moment to develop the real fix. Unless something dramatically changes here in the next couple of weeks, I think anyone wanting a simple way to get the old xdg behavior on 20.04 is going to forced to: 1) Use Google-supplied binary Chrome or 2) Switch distros -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Yeah, this can be labelled a COVID-relevant bug, since there are countless new users flooding to Zoom, etc... It looks like this is being worked on within the last four days: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/8304 But only for zoom?! And I'm not sure of the nature of the fix or who would get it. This may reflect the latest inclusions (see line 95 or so) ? It shows "apt" being included: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/tests/main/xdg- open/task.yaml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
If the approach so far is to individually whitelist classes of links, surely can't this be better dealt with by doing something similar to how Chromium responds to me clicking on a downloaded file: it asks me if it's okay to have snap launch that file? Can't we do this for links that go to xdg-open without downloading a file? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Hate to be another +1 but, any updates on this. This is quite a major issue for real world use right now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
any updates on this, manual url interception and copy pasting is getting old :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Please add the vmrc URL scheme, needed by VMWare ESXi. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
i'm sure an easier workaround is to (temporarily) use firefox for this. i use this one when i need to open some tg:// links in telegram app -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
How I managed to work around this to add a new Slack workspace: * Click the + button in the desktop app. This opens https://app.slack.com/ssb/add?… in Chromium. * Press F12 to get the Network tab. Make sure *Preserve Log* is checked. * Type in the workspace URL and hit Enter. * When prompted to run `xdg-open`, accept it. Nothing will happen. * Look in the request *Name* column for the red request starting with `slack://` in the full URL displayed in the hover tip. * Right-click to *Copy » Copy link address*. * From a terminal window, type `xdg-open `, paste the link, and Enter For Zoom it is usually less cumbersome since you can just open the Zoom app manually and copy and paste the meeting ID from the URL displayed in the browser, though this does not seem to work in all cases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
@zyga Why this isn't a high pro bug? Many application uses xdg-open to it's login function. I couldn't login e.g in : Slack, Intellij-toolbox so this is instantly breaking the ability to use this snap in a work environment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Zoom.us meeting links (zoomus://) are not launching the app anymore. This reduces drastically the productivity, since I have to manually copy the meeting ID into the Zoom app. Multiply that with about 10 meetings a day and it results in moving to Firefox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
This is personally impacting my ability to use Chromium to run the F5 SSL VPN, which uses the f5-epi and f5-vpn schemes. There needs to be a way for individual users to add to the whitelist. Adding more schemes like "apt" is just making the issue less painful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
As I said earlier I totally agree with the comment above : Manual whitelisting from the snap team will always be a blocker for such a widely adopted use of an important browser. That will push people to use chrome which IMO a failure on the libre software side. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Agreed. This seems like fundamental desktop functionality to me. My approach so far is to right click on the link, copy it, and then in a terminal type xdg-open "" where is the pasted link. In case it's useful, here's an updated list from above, but clearly there should be a way for people to choose themselves what to whitelist. Can someone explain how to add to the whitelist? - steam - apt - ssh - tg - magnet - urn - zoommtg - irc - git - tg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Wow. This is all remarkably chill for a bug that boils down to "Chrome can't launch external apps". I just started a new job and I'm trying to set up ubuntu 19.10 as my primary desktop and I'm being blocked by this. Both slack and zoom fail to launch because of this. It also means that apps that want to use Google to authenticate, and thus launch chrome to run the google login and then get a URL callback don't work (Slack in particular). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Hi! This bug also affects me. Magnet torrent links don't work at all. Could we have an update on this please? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Sorry for the +1 comment here, but can we revisit the severity of this? 20.04 is coming and it's a notable feature regression for chromium- browser. I really like this idea for fixing it: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#issuecomment-585721100 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
>From another report on the snapcraft forum, another custom scheme: urn (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/chromium-user-open-error-supplied-url- scheme-is-not-allowed/15429) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1776873] Re: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps
** Also affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
