Hello,
david@Miho:~$ gnome-open http://www.debian.org
Error showing url: No application is registered as handling this file
david@Miho:~$ su
Password:
Miho:/home/david# apt-get install desktop-file-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
desktop-file-utils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/94.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 248 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package desktop-file-utils.
(Reading database ... 273823 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking desktop-file-utils (from
.../desktop-file-utils_0.20-0.1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up desktop-file-utils (0.20-0.1) ...
Miho:/home/david# exit
exit
david@Miho:~$ gnome-open http://www.debian.org
david@Miho:~$
Then now it works.
I've got a bug in the package "liferea" (http://bugs.debian.org/666145)
that seems to be caused by not being able to launch the default gnome
web browser unless desktop-file-utils is installed. Even if the user
has properly configured a default gnome web browser, it still won't work
unless desktop-file-utils is installed.
More specifically, it seems that gtk_show_uri() library call, and
similarly, gnome-open in (libgnome2-0) seems to be broken without
desktop-file-utils installed.
Question #1: Package "liferea" has gnome web browser called via
gtk_show_uri() set as the default web browser, as such, should this
package recommend desktop-file-utils as it seems to be required for this
to work?
Question #2: Should I instead be using gnome-www-browser
(http://wiki.debian.org/HOWTO/DefaultWebBrowser) as the default browser,
which appears to work without desktop-file-utils?
Queston #3: Assuming the application default web browser fails for any
reason, is it reasonable to fall back automatically to x-www-browser in
the application's code or is it better to have the user to go into the
application's browser preferences and choose x-www-browser so that it's
clear what browser the application is using? I'm asking because I want
to know what would typically be the best way to handle this in a
gtk/gnome application that's often installed with and without a gnome
desktop environment..
Thanks for your time.
-David Smith
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