Bug#612985: making progress in figuring it

[Jason Woofenden]

Hi again,

Here's some more details of things I've tried:

I went to the gnome Preferred Applications and flipped the browser
from my custom command to iceweasel. No dice, all links still open
in chromium.

I tried update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser (setting it
to iceweasel) and even update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
(setting it to midori)

and still, all links open in chromium.


OK, after strace and lots of digging and googling, I've discovered
that gnome will obey the settings in
$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list

Wahoo!


I also realized that I did a really bad job setting my XDG env
vars, so some programs (like gnome panel, and the few programs I
launched from it) were running without them set. I've rectified
that. And still Preferred Applications seems to have little effect.

But I've found something that does!

So perhaps what needs to happen is that the Preferred Applications
panel needs to update $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list?

And what of the protocol handlers in gconf? Are those obsolete now?

Thanks,    - Jason