other packages are unable to populate gnome-default-applications

[Dominic Evans]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

...and hence cannot contribute to preferred applications chooser.

see bug 357651 for original report against firefox-3.5

Population of the web browser combo in the preferred applications applet doesn't happen in the firefox-* packages but is hardcoded in gnome-control-center itself (in /usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps/gnome-default-applications.xml)

gnome-control-center (capplet) should additionally read user files from /etc/gnome-control-center/gnome-default-applications.d/*.xml that other packages could then populate to add their entries to this list.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579033

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the code seems to read xml files in /usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps so that's already working

[Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)]

Excellent.

Fix Confirmed, 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. Will forward this info to firefox-3.5 packaging.

Thanks for the help!