sensible-browser ignores KDE and KDE preferences

[Shai Berger]

Binary package hint: debianutils

sensible-browser specifically checks for gnome, and tries to use gnome-www-browser; it has no checks for KDE (or XFCE or LDXE or anything else), so under KDE, it falls to x-www-browser.

x-www-browser has 3 options on my system: konqueror (the default), firefox, and firefox-3.0 (which should be the same as firefox, n'est-ce-pas?).

So -- I had the fun of figuring out why a slightly-less-than-mainstream application (Freemind) insisted on opening HTML files and links in Konqueror, although I set Firefox as my preferred browser in the KDE settings.

I suppose this can be solved by adding kde-open -- or some other, KDE-prefrences-aware script -- as an alternative x-www-browser; but since gnome-www-browser is invoked directly from sensible-browser, I suspect there is a reason to prefer doing it this way for KDE too.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
(Kubuntu, that is)

$ apt-cache policy debianutils
debianutils:
  Installed: 2.29ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.29ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.29ubuntu2 0
        500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status