[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





--- Comment #3 from Michael Terry <michael.terry at canonical.com>  2010-01-29 05:28:00 PST ---
Lei Zhang, I agree it's not a requirement, but as you say it is a convention in
GNOME to use basenames.  For example, all the other existing preferred apps use
it.  So xdg-setting trying to set or get any of them would fail [1].

The current behavior was suited for chromium because the script comes from
chromium, but it's not a good fit for the rest of GNOME.

The issue you bring up with versions in non-standard locations could be solved
with PATH adjustments.

[1] xdg-setting check default-web-browser epiphany.desktop will check for
'/usr/bin/epiphany' when it will find 'epiphany' and say 'no'.  And setting it
will result in a 'Custom' preferred app instead of the existing option
'Epiphany'.


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