Bug#282834: gnome-control-center: "Preferred Applications" selections being ignored

[Matthew Exley]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.8.1-2
Severity: normal


Hello,

On upgrading to 2.8.1, I found that - specifically for URLs, untested
for other types - clicking on URLS in Gnome-supporting applications
(specifically, Thunderbird and Evolution) launched the Gnome default
browser (Epiphany) rather than my custom setting.

Checking the Control panel (Foot->Applications->Desktop
Preferences->Advanced->Preferred Applications") showed that my preferred
choice (custom web browser, command /usr/bin/galeon -n %s) was still
registered as the supposed choice.


Checking using gconftool-2 got me the right info too:
>
>exleym@Apu:~$ gconftool-2  --get '/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command'
>/usr/bin/galeon -n %s
>exleym@Apu:~$ gconftool-2  --get '/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command'
>/usr/bin/galeon -n %s

BUT, checking the enablers revealed the problem and solution:
>
>exleym@Apu:~$ gconftool-2  --get '/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled'
>No value set for `/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled'
>exleym@Apu:~$ gconftool-2  --get '/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled'
>No value set for `/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled'
>

This I was able to fix in the expected manner:
>
>exleym@Apu:~$ gconftool-2  --type bool --set '/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled' 'true'
>exleym@Apu:~$ gconftool-2  --type bool --set '/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled' 'true'
>

CONCLUSION: Somewhere upgrading from 2.6 to 2.8.1, this setting got
deleted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9.2010043
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  capplets                  1:2.8.1-2      configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.8.0-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.8.0-3        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.8.0-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.8.1-4        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.8.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.8.0-5        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.8.0-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.8.0-3        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.8.3-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.6.0-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.7-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-3      compression library - runtime

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