firefox-3.5 not adding Shiretoko entry to preferred applications

[Dominic Evans]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

installing the firefox-3.5 package should add an entry for Shiretoko to the 'web browser' combo bar for the 'System --> Preferences --> Preferred Applications' configuration applet

currently the only way to set Shiretoko as the default browser is to set this to custom and manually enter 'firefox-3.5 %s' in the command input field

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

Unfortunately, this doesn't happen in the firefox-* packages. This is hardcoded in gnome-control-center itself.
It has to be listed in /usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps/gnome-default-applications.xml.

The proper way to fix this would be to teach gnome-control-center (capplet) how to read user files
in something like /etc/gnome-control-center/gnome-default-applications.d/*.xml that other packages could populate.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

Thanks for the speedy response Fabien. Have raised the appropriate bug (with your suggestion) against gnome-control-center, see bug 357675), although I expect it will also need to be raised upstream.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

Re-opening this as have now heard back from gnome upstream that we can populate this combo, so firefox-3.5 package should be updated to do add this.

Adding a file shiretoko.xml to /usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps with suitable content (http://pastebin.com/f170c2e2f) caused it to be populated in the selector. See bug 357675 for the upstream info.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

fwiw, thunderbird-3.0 package (currently only in ~fta PPA, not in jaunty) could also be updated to do this for mailreader combo...

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

if this .xml magic works, we should add it asap.

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

Already done in firefox-3.6, thunderbird-3.0 and chromium-browser. It's visible if you are using the dailies.

I didn't do it in firefox-3.5 as it will soon be migrated to be the default firefox and the firefox is already listed as a Preferred Application in gnome-control-center.

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

Cool. Sounds good.

Marking as Invalid.