[intrepid]emesene gives bad interpretation of hotmail access

[Guybrush88]

from an upgrade from hardy to intrepid, emesene badly interprets the access to my hotmail account, as it considers it as a text file, so he uses gedit to open the html code instead of using the default browser (firefox in my case) to open the relative website. is that resolvable?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

I don't think this is a emesene problem. If you double click in a html file from nautilus, what does it open, gedit or a browser?

If you right click it, go to Properties->Open with, what is selected there?

[Guybrush88 (guybrush)]

from nautilus it hets opened with a normal browser, with emesene it gets opened with gedit

[Guybrush88 (guybrush)]

*gets

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Guybrush88 wrote:
> from nautilus it hets opened with a normal browser, with emesene it gets
> opened with gedit
>

What happens if you launch the following command from a terminal?
gnome-open /usr/share/emesene/hotmlog.htm

[Guybrush88 (guybrush)]

it opens the file with gedit and it closes 1-2 seconds after it is open

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Then it's not emesene's fault.

You didn't answer to this question:

"If you right click it, go to Properties->Open with, what is selected there?"

[Guybrush88 (guybrush)]

in Properties->Open with it is selected Firefox

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

What is the output of the following command?

cd /usr/share/emesene/ && python -c 'import desktop; print desktop.get_desktop()'

[Guybrush88 (guybrush)]

it changes directory to /usr/share/emesene/ and it doesn't say anything about the command python -c 'import desktop; print desktop.get_desktop()'

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Can you paste the output of this command? (remove first the personal info)
python -c 'import os; print os.environ'

What happens if you do this?
python -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('/usr/share/emesene/hotmlog.htm')"

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

I've just upgraded to Intrepid and got this too, I'll investigate it

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

The problem is that emesene is using desktop.py to open links, which uses gnome-open if the user is using GNOME.

gnome-open uses gnome-vfs, and since gnome-vfs 1:2.22.0-4, text/html is a "subclass" of text/plain, and text/plain is opened in a text editor so text/html is now too.

I see two solutions here: switch desktop.py to use gvfs-open (which isn't valid for Debian until Lenny+1 and isn't a good idea for backports in Ubuntu) or use webbrowser instead. I'll look into doing this.

Thanks for your bug report and for all your help!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package emesene - 1.0-dist-3

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emesene (1.0-dist-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Move python-gnome2-extras from Recommends to Suggests, as it's only
      needed for the Spell plugin and brings many modules and dependencies.
  * debian/emesene-launcher:
    - Pass arguments to Controller.py
  * debian/patches/from_upstream_fix_gtk_image_loading.patch:
    - Patch from upstream r1394, loads an stock image if the personal one
      couldn't be loaded.
  * debian/patches/use_webbrowser_module_to_open_html_local_files.patch:
    - Use webbrowser module instead of desktop.py from emesene to open
      local html files, as desktop.py will use gnome-open for GNOME which
      uses gnome-vfs, which since 1:2.22.0-4 makes text/* a subgroup of
      text/plain, making them being opened with a text editor instead of
      the browser. LP: #241765.
      For Lenny+1, if upstream doesn't change this code, it could be
      possible to just switch desktop.py to use gvfs-open.

 -- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:47:02 +0100