Bug#746707: refuses to use tel URIs

[Daniel Pocock]

On 02/05/14 22:27, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

The final comments in this issue also appear very similar:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748643