Transmission has to be launched before it registers itself as a magnet: handler

[Andy Stahler]

Binary package hint: transmission

Lucid Lynx, up to date as of a few hours ago.

Firefox complains that no program is associated with magnet links.

Setting it up using:

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command '/usr/bin/transmission %s' --type String
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/enabled --type Boolean true

Gets it to work.

It seems like a shame to have that one final piece prevent it from working in Lucid.

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 20:35 +0000, Andy Stahler wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: transmission
>
> Lucid Lynx, up to date as of a few hours ago.
>
> Firefox complains that no program is associated with magnet links.
> (...)
I can't reproduce it on the guest account, Transmission does set itself
as a magnet link handler on the first launch. The only case it doesn't
do it is if another application has already registered itself and it
doesn't seem to be the case here.
Have you launched transmission before clicking on a magnet link?
 status incomplete

[Andy Stahler (stahler-andrew)]

That's probably it. I'm testing Lucid on a system I don't usually do torrent downloads on. I remembered that magnet links should work now and wanted to test it, but I had not run transmission before testing it.

My bad :)

[Andy Stahler (stahler-andrew)]

Actually, with magnet links becoming more common, it's not improbable that the first torrent download someone would try would be through one. How difficult would it be to register a system default during the package install?

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 21:08 +0000, Andy Stahler wrote:
> Actually, with magnet links becoming more common, it's not improbable
> that the first torrent download someone would try would be through one.
> How difficult would it be to register a system default during the
> package install?

It's something I'd like to investigate for Maverick (I think we could
create a schema file and put it somewhere in the system-wide gconf
configuration path). Unfortunately it's too late to start working on
that for Lucid.
 importance low
 status triaged
 summary "Transmission has to be launched before it registers itself as
a magnet: handler"

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This ticket has been idle for 8 months.

Does this behavior still need to be fixed for 11.04?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I just experienced this in precise