Public bug reported:
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
plasma-desktop:
Installed: 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
Candidate: 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
Version table:
*** 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
No matter what I set Default Applications > Web Browser to in System
Settings, it reverts to the screenshotted state upon being reopened and
has no apparent effect.
This has led to a dysfunctional desktop where I have to leave my desired
browser open and either take advantage of "Copy URL" or an application's
built-in support for overriding the system-default HTTP opener because:
1. `xdg-open` delegates to kde-open5, which doesn't understand that I
only want Konqueror as a file manager and I'm still rooting around,
trying to figure out which `.desktop` file is telling the desktop that
Konqueror is a valid HTTP or HTML handler so I can delete it and `chattr
+i` so the desktop only sees Konqueror as a more featureful alternative
to Dolphin.
(That's also why, if Launchpad records the submitting browser, it'll
show Konqueror. I couldn't figure out how to forcibly override the
browser `ubuntu-bug` uses.)
2. `xdg-desktop-portal-kde` decided that the Flatpak version of `xdg-
open` should open URLs from `org.mozilla.Thunderbird` in
`com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium`, even though I don't think I've
*ever* asked for anything but `org.mozilla.firefox` through it. (I've
blanked out the `MimeType` line in both my
`/home/ssokolow/.local/share/applications/com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium.desktop`
and
`/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium.desktop`
but I can't remember how to trigger a regeneration of the relevant cache
to see if it worked without restarting my desktop sesson.)
3. The File Associations KCM is set to prefer Firefox for HTML, and gVim
is higher in the priority order than Ungoogled Chromium, and Konqueror
was below either before I removed it from the list of associations for
HTML entirely, but Default Applications doesn't appear to be forcing "in
an application based on the contents of the URL" (which I wouldn't want
anyway), which makes that ineffective.
4. I've manually edited the `~/.local/share/mime*.*` files to ensure the
PCManFM-made selections of Firefox are complete for both the HTML
filetypes and the `x-scheme-handler` lines, but KDE clearly still hasn't
switched to the XDG-standardized approach to specifying file
associations, let alone scheme handlers.
5. Because the browsers I actually use are all Flatpak'd for extra
sandboxing, the Debian alternatives system can't see Firefox or
Ungoogled Chromium, but it chooses a leftover copy of `xlinks2` for
`x-www-browser` over Konqueror anyway. (I *could* remove xlinks2, but it
currently serves as confirmation that nothing's actually *used* `x-www-
browser` since I stopped using Skype years ago.)
6. Because of how KDE loves to move so much functionality into daemons
like kded (ostensibly so that, if part of your desktop crashes, it's
impossible to restore correct function without restarting the whole
session), `strace kde-open5` didn't turn up anything useful.
Given what an imposing maze the KDE codebase is and how this is probably
already fixed on KDE upstream (we'll see when 22.04 LTS comes out), it's
getting to the point where I'm considering patching the problem by
writing an LD_PRELOAD hack to formalize and generalize the the
bash+kdialog script I set as a `.zip` handler so I get a "Did you want
MComix instead? Yes/No" prompt when Firefox's Downloads pane tries to
open a file with a `.cbz` extension using Ark. (i.e. Just hook the
`exec*` family of libc functions and have a `.toml` file that defines
which subprocess invocations to rewrite unless a special environment
variable is set. It can't be as crashy as that old "give GTK apps KDE
Open/Save dialogs" KGtk `LD_PRELOAD` hack was and I can just look at the
`gtk3-nocsd` package for the recommended way to install a system-wide
LD_PRELOAD hack.)
I've attached this to the `plasma-desktop` package, because that's what
dpkg says kcm_componentchooser is provided by.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: plasma-desktop 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Oct 13 02:21:12 2021
SourcePackage: plasma-desktop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: plasma-desktop (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal third-party-packages
** Attachment added: "Screenshot_20211013_025210.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1946920/+attachment/5532325/+files/Screenshot_20211013_025210.png
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