Bug#500372: libgnome2-0: gnome-open does not honour gnomes "prefered applications"

[Christian Engwer]

Dear Josselin,

> > I configured gnome to run firefox as my prefered webbrowser (using the
> > gnome-default-applications-properties capplet). When opening an html
> > file using gnome-open, this files is not opend using firefox, but
> > using epiphany.
> 
> For opening local files, you need to set the default MIME handler (e.g.
> with the nautilus properties), not the URI handler (the one that you
> set).

I agree that MIME and URI handlers are differnt things, but still this
behaviour does come as a suprise to the average user.

Either "prefered applications" should also modify the MIME settings,
or gnome-open should also take the URI settings into account.

Christian