Mumble install does not register mumble:// URL handler with the system/firefox

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Add the following line to /usr/share/applications/mumble.desktop :

 MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mumble

Then execute on the shell:

 $ sudo update-desktop-database

After this, running "xdg-open mumble://your-server" from the command line started working.

More info at http://jarrpa.net/2011/10/28/creating-custom-url-handlers-in-ubuntu-11-04-11-10-gnome-3-0/

This bug was fixed in the package mumble - 1.2.3-349-g315b5f5-2.2ubuntu1

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mumble (1.2.3-349-g315b5f5-2.2ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ pataquets ]
  * Register mumble:// URL handler mimetype (LP: #934239)
 -- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:45:45 +1000

Hello James, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mumble into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mumble/1.2.3-2ubuntu4.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Tested under Precise.
* Purged package
* Enabled -proposed
* Installed mumble 1.2.3-2ubuntu4.1

Works for me.

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package mumble - 1.2.3-2ubuntu4.1

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mumble (1.2.3-2ubuntu4.1) precise; urgency=low

  * Register mumble:// URL handler mimetype (LP: #934239)
 -- pataquets <email address hidden> Wed, 15 May 2013 21:04:51 +0200

Still happens under Trusty Gnome desktop.

$ cat /usr/share/applications/mumble.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mumble
Name[fr]=Mumble
Name[tr]=Mumble
GenericName=Voice Chat
GenericName[fr]=Chat vocal
GenericName[tr]=Sesle Sohbet
Comment=A low-latency, high quality voice chat program for gaming
Comment[fr]=Un logiciel de chat vocal de haute qualité et de faible latence pour les jeux
Comment[tr]=Oyunlar için yüksek kaliteli ve düşük gecikmeli sesle sohbet programı
Exec=mumble
Icon=mumble
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Network;Chat;Qt;
Version=1.0

File /usr/share/app-install/desktop/mumble:mumble.desktop has the fix applied.

There is indeed a proper fix for this issue that is declared on the Mumble Wiki on how to get mumble to open those kinds of links: http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Mumble_URL#URL_Handler_Installation

In short, it's simply two commands to create the association:

gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mumble/command 'mumble "%s"'
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mumble/enabled true

This shouldn't be very hard to implement at all.