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

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


Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com>  2010-01-28 14:39:02 PST ---
For the patch itself, please make the change to xdg-settings.in as well.


The problem reported to Ubuntu mostly comes from the Chromium PPA being
packaged funny:

1. As you mentioned, the package has /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
and /usr/lib/chromium-browser, so there's confusion when the latter messes with
PATH. Google Chrome doesn't have this problem, it's binary and wrapper scripts
are /opt/google/chrome/chrome and /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome,
respectively.

2. The chromium package's xml file in 
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps uses the basename, but it uses
xdg-settings, which sets the full path. This mismatch confuses Gnome's
Preferred Applications. Google Chrome works fine with Preferred Applications
because it use the full path in the xml file.


If the Chromium PPA fixed those two issues, then there shouldn't be a problem
with using the full path with Gnome. As far as I can tell, Gnome doesn't have a
technical limitation that says basename only. It's only done by convention.

The reason we used the full path is so Chromium developers can run a self built
copy of Chromium, set that as the default browser, and have the desktop
environment know to use it as the default browser rather than the installed
package. While this isn't a common use case for most users, it's very helpful
for developers.


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