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
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