Hi Allan, Sorry for the long delay in replying :-(
Den 2015-06-05 kl. 06:25, skrev Allan Wind: > Dear Maintainer, > > I tried to open a link in Pidgin which was configured to use the browser > Desktop Default. Instead of using Iceweasel as expected it opened the link in > Chrome. Checked on update-alternatives and I have iceweasel as my > preference. > Then I tried to check on xgd-settings which was unhelpful: > > allan@vent:~$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser > xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment > > Maybe use the same logic as xdg-open which has: > > detectDE > > if [ x"$DE" = x"" ]; then > DE=generic > fi > > Although maybe defectDE should just return generic? There are many copies of > this function it seems. I run xmonad without a desktop environment. Indeed, I will fix it. > Downloaded the Pidgin source to figure out that it calls xdg-open. The man > page for xdg-open is unhelpful to figure out where it is getting that setting > from so I traced the script to figure out that it calls `xdg-mime query > default > x-scheme-handler/http`. The man page for xdg-mime is unhelpful to figure out > where it gets its information from, so I trace that script to finally find the > source as /usr/share//applications/defaults.list. To me it is weird that a > configuration file lives in /usr/share. The reference for these kinds of things are the freedesktop.org specifications. I should add references to them in the manual page. Here they are anyway: Default applications and associations: http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html Base directories: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > The defaults.list file contains no references to Iceweasel, so not sure if > Iceweasel should populate that file. It didn't, btw, when I reconfigured > iceweasel. Actually, the correct file is mimeapps.list. Recent versions of Iceweasel should populate ~/.config/mimeapps.list if you press the "Make default" button. Due to a bug in xdg-utils it does not actually check ~/.config/mimeapps.list, but it will in my next upload. > I noticed that xgd-open sets the BROWSER variable to what seems most sensible: > > BROWSER=x-www-browser:firefox:seamonkey:mozilla:epiphany:konqueror:chromium-browser:google-chrome:www-browser:links2:elinks:links:lynx:w3m > > but then never used. I already configured my system preference with > x-www-browser so xdg-open should really consult that data source. I'm not sure. The user might have configured the default choice in other ways. For example, he/she might have clicked "Make default" in Iceweasel or used "xdg-mime default". In these cases, running x-www-browser would be confusing. Since version 1.1.0~rc3+git20150919-1 xdg-open will use what you specify in your $BROWSER environment variable if you set it (and if running in generic mode). So if you set BROWSER=x-www-browser then you should get your preferred browser. > Shouldn't xdg-mime have an easy way to query its entire database? I would > have > zero chance of guessing that I needed to configure x-scheme-handler/http, or > the rest of them. Could be a good idea, yes. Although you shouldn't have to guess really. > Anyways, feel free to down-prioritize, I am probably the rare exception > running > without a desktop environments, and split what would be helpful to individual > tickets. No, you're not an exception. I appreciate your feedback. -- Pelle
