Default browser not respected

Possibly related is bug 46446.

Can confirm this on dapper

This happens with more than just dillo - bug 65673 has the same with opera.

The patch 09_browser.dpatch applied to the xchat source changes xchat to use sensible-browser instead of gnome-open.

I'm guessing this is so its not dependant on gnome-open, which is resonable. The problem is that sensible-browser prefers the system default browser to the users preference.

The attached patch changes the behaviour to try xdg-open first, then deskop preferred browsers with gnome-open or kfmclient before resorting to sensible-browser.

In an ideal world we would just rely on xdg-open but until xdg-utils is installed by default thats not possible.

This also allows xchat to choose a sensible default for protocols other than http.

Hi Ubuntu'ers,

Your patch looks much better. We often get complaints in #xchat/freenode about not being able to open links in Ubuntu/Debian due to Debian's old patch. See http://xchat.org/faq/#q221

Just some comments:

1) Your patching of xchat.c is useless, that code is commented out.
2) + moz = g_find_program_in_path ("kfmclient openURL"); I doubt this'll work, you can't put spaces in there, it's looking for a executable only.

P.S What is "xdg-open", is it something I should take upstream?

I left the original modifications in xchat.c as I wasn't sure what they actually did -- I just altered the existing debian patch.

2 is indeed broken. I don't have a KDE install to test it with however.

xdg-open is part of the Portland project

http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0beta1/xdg-open.html

the idea being that it takes care of all this sort of thing so the application dosen't have to worry about what the users preferred browser is without being tied to a single desktop environments settings / API. It would be a sensible inclusion upstream I think :)

Any news about this bug?

Chris, why you marked it as in progress? Are you working on it?

FYI, the behaviour of upstream 2.8.0 has changed: http://xchat.org/faq/#q221

Peter: does that solve the problem? I think that yes, but I'm not sure...

I've tried it for myself with firefox and konkeror and it works fine, so I mark it as Fix Released (>=2.8.0).

Regards
Pochu

This has been fixed upstream and the Ubuntu patch to modify the behaviour has been removed in feisty.