Epiphany steals "sensible-browser" upon install

Thanks for your bug. If you don't want the defaut to change don't use sensible-browser, rather the "x-www-browser" alternative. Closing, that's not a bug from epiphany, that's the way sensible-browser is made

Even if it's not a Epiphany bug it shouldn't be rejected but reassigned then, because I shouldn't have to dig all the way down there with no explanation to stop an installed app from doing stuff silently behind my back. Either sensible-browser needs to be fixed, or it shouldn't be the default.

it's not the default, the GNOME desktop uses the browser selected to the preferred app capplet

I didn't understand that at all: "uses the browser selected to the preferred app capplet", what does that mean?

And sure it is the default, maybe there is some technical reason to call it something else, but the fact remains that:

On a fairly vanilla install of Ubuntu 6.10 that has not mucked with any browser settings, an extra installed browser rudely changes my desktop settings behind my back with no explanation and not even telling me how to revert. That is plain wrong and it should be fixed somewhere if not here.

Le jeudi 23 novembre 2006 à 19:02 +0000, Kristoffer Lundén a écrit :
> I didn't understand that at all: "uses the browser selected to the
> preferred app capplet", what does that mean?

"system, preferences, preferred applications" from the panel menu,
that's the capplet you use to select the default browser for GNOME. The
GNOME applications do not use sensible browser, they use that setting
(which is stored to gconf "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command"
key)

> On a fairly vanilla install of Ubuntu 6.10 that has not mucked with any
> browser settings, an extra installed browser rudely changes my desktop
> settings behind my back with no explanation and not even telling me how
> to revert.

Again, sensible-browser is not a "desktop setting" and the GNOME default
is not changed without asking you

I hear you. But what is happening then? All I know is that installing Epiphany makes it default and that I found "sensible-browser" in the prefs, and changing that to the "Firefox" setting fixed the problem back to using Firefox.

Le dimanche 26 novembre 2006 à 15:41 +0000, Kristoffer Lundén a écrit :
> I hear you. But what is happening then? All I know is that installing
> Epiphany makes it default and that I found "sensible-browser" in the
> prefs, and changing that to the "Firefox" setting fixed the problem back
> to using Firefox.

You should simply don't use "sensible-browser" if you don't understand
what's doing or doesn't match your needs, nobody forced you to pick that
option. It works the way it has been designed, if you doesn't like it
that doesn't make the behaviour being bugged. You can
read /usr/bin/sensible-browser to understand what it is doing. To make
it simple: "it uses $BROWSER if defined, if it's not then it uses the
x-www-browser alternative, etc. The x-www-browser alternative is an
alternative, different program can register with a priority. It makes
sense for programs not installed by default to have a higher alternative
because usually if you install them that's to use them instead of the
default browser. If you don't like that you can pick an alternative by
hand (man update-alternatives for informations about that)

I give up: I never, ever, chose sensible-browser. It was there, chosen for me. "Understand" does not enter into it, it was not my choice. And no, making system-wide, huge changes silently without any explanation makes no sense.

Sorry to have wasted your time. Thanks anyways.

Why didn't you say that before? The bug is not that sensible-browser is stolen, it's that it got selected as default option for you. What does happen if you run gconf-editor, go to /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command, right click and pick "Unset Key"? What value is set for it then? That's the default value. If you get firefox when doing that then some problem or user changed your setting and that's it to blame