file:// opened in WebBrowser

[robiwan]

Since version 0.4.8 URL link handling hast changed. Because of useing

function exo_execute_preferred_application_on_screen (category, uri, NULL, NULL, screen, &error)

instead of

function exo_url_show_on_screen (uri, NULL, screen, &error)

like in prior versions, the program to open a link is defined by the category in the terminal instead of letting this decision do the exo_... function. This results in opening file:// URL in WebBrowser instead of TextEditor (like in 0.4.7).

This reduces usibility dramaticaly.

I would suggest to give the old function call back! Alternatively there should be a additional category "TextEditor" defined in the terminal code to handle file:// URLs.

REPRODUCE: try the following in version 0.4.7 and 0.4.8
type "file:///etc/hosts" and do a mouse over middle klick

[Laville Guillaume (guiguilinux)]

Since the c5cbf887baa8f4ffb0b205b2c69d031efd9a2367 commit of Terminal this summer, the terminal widget now always use exo_execute_preferred_application_on_screen() instead of gtk_show_uri() to open URIs to fix inconsistencies with links and mailto: references.

However, since the category parameter is set to WebBrowser in this case, file:// URIs which where recognized by gtk_show_uri() as local files and handled by MIME-associated apps such as image browsers or text editors are now always opened in the exo preferred web browser (Firefox).

This make advanced operations such as directly starting a slideshow or editing a source file much less direct than before from a terminal widget and requires the user to manually copy/paste the URI to the appropriate tool.

Could a fallback to the old method using gtk_show_uri() be implemented for these URIs, since the exo alternative doesn't appear to provide a "use MIME-associated application instead" category?

Regards,

[8-nick (8-nick)]

If you set the preferred apps again it should create a line

x-scheme-handler/file=exo-file-manager.desktop

in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

That will make sure gtk_show_uri will open file:// uris with thunar (though exo-open).

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Please look at the linked upstream bug report. Do the instructions resolve the problem?

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8289

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing this report.