Unity

[dash] Opera as default web browser is not shown in home screen

Bug #786870 reported by Hernando Torque
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
unity-2d
Fix Released
Medium
Florian Boucault
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I've set Opera 11.11 to be my default browser ('xdg-settings get default-web-browser' returns 'opera-browser.desktop'), but it won't show up in Unity's dash home screen (it shows Firefox instead). However, it works with other browsers like Chromium and Midori.

In Unity 2D, the item for the default browser is missing altogether (see screenshot).

This happens with Unity (2D) in Natty as well as in Oneiric.

Revision history for this message
Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity-2d:
status: New → Confirmed
Florian Boucault (fboucault)
Changed in unity-2d:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

Where does Opera put its desktop file, btw? Is the opera-browser.desktop file in /usr/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications or somewhere else?

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Bilal, opera-browser.desktop resides in /usr/share/applications.

Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Florian Boucault (fboucault)
summary: - Default browser Opera not shown in dash home screen
+ [dash] Opera as default web browser is not shown in home screen
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Rafael Peñates (androxvanxo) wrote :

Hi, i found a little workaround that solve this issue

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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/opera /usr/bin/opera-browser
gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec /usr/bin/opera-browser
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 source: http://forum.ubuntu.cz/index.php?topic=57396.0

Revision history for this message
Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

@Rafael, Hernando: this issue might have been fixed with Oneiric, let's try it out.

Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Actually, it should have been fixed with revision 645 of lp:unity-2d, and the version for Natty in the daily PPA has the fix (just tested, it works well here).

Changed in unity-2d:
assignee: nobody → Florian Boucault (fboucault)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Florian Boucault (fboucault)
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue is fixed in precise with the new dash design which doesn't have that button

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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