Abiword help always opens Epiphany instead of preferred application (firefox)

[Matt Galvin]

In breezy...

Open up abiword
Click the help button
Epiphany will start to view the help.

Shouldn't the help be shown in the users preferred browser(firefox in most
cases). This could possibly be confusing for the help to open in a browser that
the user may not have ever used before (especially for noobs).

This is not a terribly bad thing but could but confusing and at least does not
seem to be the correct behavior.

LATEST PACKAGE TESTED: abiword:
  Installed: 2.6.4-4ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.6.4-4ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.4-4ubuntu4 0
Ubuntu 8.10
abiword:
  Installed: 2.6.4-4ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.6.4-4ubuntu4
  Version table: *** 2.6.4-4ubuntu4 0

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That works fine here, do you use abiword or abiword-gnome?

[Matt Galvin (mgalvin)]

I use abiword-gnome.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

I cannot reproduce this with abiword-gnome. Abiword behaviour is right, it uses
the prefered browser for me. Are you sure that firefox is set as your prefered
browser in System > Prefered applications ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still have this issue? what does "gnome-open http://www.google.com" do by
example?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

No reply and that works fine for me, closing the bug. Feel free to reopen with
the asked details if you still get the issue.

[ThiloPfennig (tpfennig)]

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
abiword:
  Installiert: 2.6.4-4ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 2.6.4-4ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.6.4-4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I can confirm this for Intrepid.

$ cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="needs_term" mtime="1219601299" type="bool" value="false">
        </entry>
        <entry name="nremote" mtime="1219601299" type="bool" value="true">
        </entry>
        <entry name="exec" mtime="1219601299" type="string">
                <stringvalue>firefox</stringvalue>
        </entry>
</gconf>

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Is this still an issue for you in the final release version of Intrepid 8.10? I have both epiphany-browser and firefox installed, but can not reproduce this bug.

Thanks again.

[ThiloPfennig (tpfennig)]

Yes, definitely.

abiword:
  Installed: 2.6.4-4ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.6.4-4ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.4-4ubuntu4 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

This happens because abiwrod uses the BROWSER environment variable.

Adding the following line to your .bashrc should fix the bug:

export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

While Jérôme is correct that Abiword does use the BROWSER environment variable, that is not usually set and isn't necessary here. It will then fall-back to xdg-open which should open the default app that you have set.

https://github.com/AbiWord/abiword/blob/trunk/src/af/util/xp/ut_go_file.cpp#L1393

Therefore, I am closing this bug.