Bug#601743: /usr/bin/gnome-open: Re: gnome-open man page doesn't say how to change what programs are used to open files

[Jason Woofenden]

Package: libgnome2-0
Version: 2.30.0-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gnome-open


This is still infuriating. Can someone please please point me
towards some documentation on how to affect what programs
gnome-open launches for protocols and file types?

Recently in unstable: gnome-terminal's right-click -> Open Link
thing has been calling chromium instead of the browser I've set
under System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications

So I checked, and gnome-open is doing the same thing.

The man page for gnome-open needs to say how to configure it.

Thank you,   - Jason


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-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/dash

Versions of packages libgnome2-0 depends on:
ii  gvfs                       1.6.4-3       userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libaudiofile0              0.2.6-8       Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-11     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libesd0                    0.2.41-8      Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.1-6      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.0-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-common           2.30.0-1      The GNOME library - common files
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.24.3-2    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.18-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                   1.16-1        lib for parsing cmdline parameters

libgnome2-0 recommends no packages.

libgnome2-0 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information