Bug#345438: libgnomevfs2-common: The default url-handler for http and https should not be epiphany

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Jan 1 21:41:44 UTC 2006


Le dimanche 01 janvier 2006 à 22:20 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit :
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > I don't think there is a "good" way of solving this issue. Maybe a new
> > "gnome-www-browser" alternative?
> 
>  If the issue is merely between GNOME and non-GNOME browsers, maybe it's
>  possible to extend the current sensible-browser algorithm to check for
>  GNOME too.
> 
>  Right now, sensible-browsers checks the list in $BROWSER, then tries
>  x-www-browser if $DISPLAY is set, and finally launches www-browser.
> 
>  We could request for it to check for GNOME and try a list of browsers
>  or a gnome-browser alternative indeed.

In which case we can simply ship a gnome-www-browser script like the
gnome-wm script we already have. It would try epiphany, then fall back
to galeon, then to firefox, then to sensible-browser.

Regards,
-- 
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