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title="NEW --- - XFCE .desktop file created for browser selection is broken"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56092">56092</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>XFCE .desktop file created for browser selection is broken
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>random832@fastmail.us
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>1.1.0 rc1
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<th>Component</th>
<td>xdg-utils
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Portland
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<pre>XFCE requires a special format of .desktop file for what it calls "helpers".
This requirement is handled by the check_xfce_desktop_file function in
xdg-settings. The function "converts" an existing application .desktop file by
removing the Type line and adding the so-called custom tweaks it requires.
This breaks when the application .desktop file has multiple sections (for
example, the chromium-browser.desktop that is present on Ubuntu).
I propose that instead of "converting" an existing application .desktop file,
when an existing XFCE helper .desktop file is not found it should create a
minimal one with only the necessary content. This would match more closely to
what what is done by XFCE's own preferred applications GUI when you browse for
a path to select a browser. It should be noted that the GUI always creates
"custom-WebBrowser.desktop" rather than [application].desktop, but this
behavior does not appear to be important and I am not sure yet if it is
desirable (I need to do more testing with how Chromium detects that it is not
the default browser to be sure).
I have already started working on a new version of this function, but have not
finished testing yet. I will attach it later this week.</pre>
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