Bug#746707: refuses to use tel URIs

[Daniel Pocock]

On 02/05/14 20:58, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 02 mai 2014 à 20:33 +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit :
>> Did this change with wheezy or with squeeze?
> 
> This changed between squeeze and wheezy.
> 


Still doesn't work for iceweasel or icedove though

I created a desktop entry sipdialer.desktop and I edited
.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list adding:

[Added Associations]
...
...
x-scheme-handler/tel=sipdialer.desktop;



Now, if I click the tel: URI in a web page or in the icedove address
book (using xul-ext-tbdialout) the "Launch Application" popup appears -
and there is no default option for me to choose.  I would expect to see
the "sipdialer" option in the popup.  Instead, it just has a "Choose"
button that opens a filesystem browser.

I can successfully launch the URI from the command line using commands
like these:

 gvfs-open tel:+442071234567

 xdg-open tel:+442071234567

and it also works from Chromium now.  Just not from iceweasel or icedove.