Bug#568908: uses iceweasel for urls despite gconf being configured to use chromium

[Joey Hess]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.28.2-1
Severity: normal

I have configured gnome to use chromium-browser as my web browser, and
that worked for opening urls in gnome-terminal, until today. Now for
reasons that escape me, it is always running iceweasel.

None of the far-too-many possible ways to configure a browser point to
iceweasel:

joey at gnu:~>gconftool --dump / |grep iceweasel
joey at gnu:~>gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
chromium-browser %s
joey at gnu:~>gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec
chromium-browser
joey at gnu:~>echo $BROWSER
w3m
joey at gnu:~>dir /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Sep 29 21:50 /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser -> /usr/bin/epiphany-browser*
joey at gnu:~>dir /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 18  2009 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/konqueror*
joey at gnu:~>dir /etc/alternatives/www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 16  2008 /etc/alternatives/www-browser -> /usr/bin/w3m*

I made a ~/bin/iceweasel that just runs chromium-browser, which works
around the problem, but I do not understand why the gconf setting is
being ignored.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.28.2-1      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.28.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.10.2-5      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.84-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.22.4-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.18.6-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.6-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.26.2-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                     2:1.1.1-1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.10-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.22.5-1+b1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.3.3-1     X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.4.3-1         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.28.0+webkit-2 Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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see shy jo
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