Bug#241716: Default browser shouldn't be sensible-browser

Josselin Mouette Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, 241716@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:48:43 +0200


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Le mar 06/04/2004 =E0 09:11, Akira TAGOH a =E9crit :
> JM> By default, GNOME use Debian's sensible-browser as the default. This =
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> JM> bad, as the alternatives can easily point to a non-GNOME browser. I'd=
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> JM> suggest to default it to a script that should look like:
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> JM> for browser in epiphany galeon mozilla-firefox mozilla; do
> JM>   if [ -x /usr/bin/$browser ]; then
> JM>     exec /usr/bin/$browser "$@"
> JM>   fi
> JM> done
> JM> exec /usr/bin/sensible-browser "$@"
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> I may be missing the discussion about this, but how about
> use gnome-open instead of the script? it gives us
> GUI(gnome-default-applications-properties) to configure the
> browser they want to use, and we have already changed the
> default browser for g-d-a-p to sensible-browser. so I think
> it would be good enough.

The point is exactly about what to do when gnome-open is called. By
default, sensible-browser is called, and this is bad, as it can point to
konqueror when it is installed, while by default it should use epiphany.
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