rekonq is not the default web browser

[Davor Cubranic]

Binary package hint: rekonq

rekonq 0.6.1 (KDE 4.5.1, KUbuntu Maverick)

I upgraded from Kubuntu Lucid to Maverick by wiping out my "/" partition and keeping "/home". Now opening links from other applications (KMail, KPackageKit) doesn't work any more. KMail appears to try to use "winebrowser", at least based on the tab that shows up in the taskbar. I had Wine installed in Lucid, but I haven't re-installed it in Maverick yet, so I'm not sure where this is coming from, or why it's taking precedence over Rekonq.

[Davor Cubranic (cubranic)]

Looking at the system settings for file associations, here is the list for text/html:
- A Wine Application
- Firefox Web Browser
- A Wine Application
- rekonq
- kate
- OpenOffice.org Word Processor

[Davor Cubranic (cubranic)]

Looking at the system settings for file associations, here is the list for text/html:
- A Wine Application
- Firefox Web Browser
- A Wine Application
- rekonq
- kate
- OpenOffice.org Word Processor
- GNU Emacs 23
- notepad

The two 'Wine application' are coming from wine-extension-html.desktop and wine-extension-htm.desktop, respectively, in ~/.local/share/applications. What's not clear is:
- why one of the two local Wine shortcuts is listed first, and another third
- why Firefox (coming from /usr/share/applications) is in the second place
- and finally, why rekonq is only fourth, when it is the first for a clean Maverick install, *and* when konqueror was in the first place until my upgrade

It's straightforward enough to change the preference order for text/html in the File Associations preference dialog. But it would be extremely tedious to go through all the associations where rekonq is one of the handlers (~50) one-by-one to ensure it's the preferred option. So as part of the fixing of the bug, I would agree that the cleanup be done across all known MIME types. The twist is that rekonq is not always in the top place -- for example, on a clean install it's only the fourth for type "application/x-ktesnippets". So the cleanup should just mechanically make it the default handler, but tinstead ensure that the relative order is not messed up by the Wine browser and Firefox. Just because Firefox and Wine are installed does not mean that either is the default browser.

[Jonathan Kolberg (bulldog98)]

I think this is only related to your somehow messed up configs.

[Davor Cubranic (cubranic)]

You're making it sound like I messed it up myself. The point is that my KDE config was just fine until the upgrade from Lucid and replacement of konqueror with rekonq messed it up by putting rekonq in the fourth place of HTML-handling apps even though konqueror was the default prior to the upgrade. So something about the upgrade process was buggy, and hence this bug report.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Please attach these files to the bug report:
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

With the information at hand it is impossible to say anything about this issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rekonq (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Davor Cubranic (cubranic)]

I made a backup just before the upgrade, and I just checked its contents. It does not have have defaults.list or mimeapps.list under ~/.local/share/applications.

The next backup, after I cleaned up various browser-related associations to put rekonq at the top, contains only mimeapps.list. There is no defaults.list then or now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rekonq (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]