transmission doesn't register itself as bittorrent client

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: transmission

$ dpkg -l transmission*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii transmission 1.92-0ubuntu2 lightweight BitTorrent client
ii transmission-cli 1.92-0ubuntu2 lightweight BitTorrent client (command line interface)
ii transmission-common 1.92-0ubuntu2 lightweight BitTorrent client (common files)
un transmission-daemon <none> (no description available)
ii transmission-gtk 1.92-0ubuntu2 lightweight BitTorrent client (GTK interface)

I'm running the latest package in lucid. It looks like transmission doesn't register itself as a handler for bittorrent files. When clicking on a bittorrent file from http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/ I am offered to open it in deluge and firefox itself, but not in transmission.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

I tried to reproduce your error, but i couldn't. For me, transmission is the first option when opening a .torrent file.
My version:
transmission-common:
  Installed: 1.92-0ubuntu2

thanks,
pura vida.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

yes, it's reproducible. steps to reproduce on my system were given in the original report. do you have any other bittorrent application installed?

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

If you are still affected, can you show me the result of this command:
grep x-bittorrent /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

Ah, I can reproduce it myself. It does look like a Firefox bug, in my case, when both Transmission and Deluge are installed, the second one is set as default - Nautilus lets you select either one of them, but Firefox shows only the default option. I'll ask some folks about it.