[Portland-bugs] [Bug 26300] New: [xdg-settings] [PATCH] Should use basenames in GNOME

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26300

           Summary: [xdg-settings] [PATCH] Should use basenames in GNOME
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: michael.terry at canonical.com


Created an attachment (id=32875)
 --> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=32875)
Use basenames for GNOME

In GNOME, it's more appropriate to use basenames for the various browser gconf
keys.

Notice the behavior of the "Preferred Applications" app.  It will set
basenames, not full binary paths.  Thus, xdg-settings is in a bit of conflict
with that app (the canonical method of changing preferred apps in GNOME).

Using full paths can also result in a bit of oddity when, say, using Chromium
and it calls xdg-settings after having modified its own PATH to point at
/usr/lib/chromium-browser first.  It ends up setting paths that avoid its
wrapper script at /usr/bin.

I'm attaching a patch that fixes this for just GNOME.  I'm not sure if other
DEs would appreciate the change, so I'm making it narrow.  (The patch was
originally written for chromium's built-in version, so the diff src path
probably isn't right, but the patch should apply.)


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