Bug#583294: gnome-control-center: gnome-default-applications-properties should update-alternatives?

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu May 27 09:45:34 UTC 2010


Le mercredi 26 mai 2010 à 13:31 -0700, Mark Hedges a écrit :
> Maybe this is a wishlist item... is it supposed to update-alternatives?
> 
> I change my preferred browser to Iceweasel, but:
> 
>  hedges at maggie:~$ locate www-browser | grep etc | grep -v gz | xargs ls -lah
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec  9 16:37 /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser -> /usr/bin/epiphany-browser
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 18  2009 /etc/alternatives/www-browser -> /usr/bin/w3m
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 25 23:46 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/epiphany-browser

The behavior is just as expected. The alternatives set up the system
default, while control-center sets the user’s default.

> So a lot of programs still run epiphany when I click links.  Epiphany is
> cool but I'm not ready to switch, and it's often blocked because it is not
> "a supported browser." 

Epiphany advertises itself just like Safari, so those blocking it are also blocking macs.

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