On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:38:39PM +0200, Silvestre Zabala wrote: >Ryan Lovett <ryan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> [2004-08-11 10:30:21]: > >I'm having a very similar problem which probably stems from the same source. >My "preferred browser" is "epiphany -n" since that opens the URL in a new tab >in an existing window. >Unfortunately gnome-open doesn't any longer use >/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command but seems to check the file >type of the remote file via PROPFIND or GET and then uses the program >registered for text/html. This is "Web Browser" which I can only guess >is "epiphany", since I don't grok the MIME system. Hmm, I was assuming (ass/u/me you know) that "Web Browser" would mean whatever I told the system was my "Preferred Application" for "Web Browser" having it hard linked to Epiphany, if that is really what is happening, would be a bug I'd say. >> This happened to me too and I believe I fixed it by going to >> gnome-file-type-properties and choosing Documents -> World Wide Web >> -> HTML page -> Default action -> Galeon. You can choose Custom and >> enter firefox. > >When I manually enter "epiphany -n" here, gnome-open aborts with "Error >showing url: The default action does not support this protocol." I >suppose you have to somehow register that the application is able to >open URLs. Yes, whatever the expected format of that string is I don't know. Does anyone on the list? >I suspect it's the new upstream version of libgnome but the MIME system >is way to scary for me to be sure. Any links to docs/manuals/howtos? I think this is a rather central piece of the GNOME desktop (preferred applications etc.) and it is something that I so far have bee happy with. Since it seems to have changed I'd love to read more about how to use it properly. (I have quite a few colleagues who are complaining about how Windows handles this. It'd be nice to be able to point to GNOME and say "GNOME is better! GNOME is right!" :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org http://magnus.therning.org/ What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russel
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