gnome-default-applications-properties does not set needs_term for mailer presets

[Aicardi]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

This bug is a duplicate of Debian's #537278.

If you select mutt as a preferred mail reader application in gnome-default-application-properties, it is not automatically set to run in a terminal. The gconf property /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/needs_terminal isn't set either to the correct value, which is found in gnome-default-applications.xml.

Steps to reproduce :
1. On a default install of Ubuntu lucid, install mutt
2. open gnome-default-application-properties
3. select mutt as the preferred mail reader application and close
4. in a terminal, type : gconftool-2 -a /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto

Expected result :
 command = mutt %s
 needs_terminal = true
 enabled = true

Actual result :
 command = mutt %s
 needs_terminal = false
 enabled = true

You will find enclosed a patch that corrects this behavior for the Mail Reader, but I think that the same problem concerns the Web Browser and the Multimedia player.

System information :
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
  Installed: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628709

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

We don't have the custom part anymore, so this is obsolete for oneiric. For maverick and/or natty, not sure this is SRU material, but if so, the patch seems to not be 100% correct. We already have a GConfPEditor for the needs-term key, so the patch should make that code set / get the setting correctly. If it's SRU-able, please open a task for any distro that might need the fix, closing this bug for oneiric now