510504 – xfce-base/exo should know about firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin executables

Bug 510504 - xfce-base/exo should know about firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin executables

Summary: xfce-base/exo should know about firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin executables

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	XFCE Team

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Keywords:	PATCH

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Reported:	2014-05-16 19:16 UTC by Mark Tomich
Modified:	2020-02-07 17:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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exo-open-mozilla-binary-packages.patch (exo-open-mozilla-binary-packages.patch,1.44 KB, patch) 2014-05-16 19:16 UTC, Mark Tomich	Details \| Diff
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Description Mark Tomich 2014-05-16 19:16:31 UTC

Created attachment 377076 [details, diff]
exo-open-mozilla-binary-packages.patch

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird binary package executables (firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin) are not recognized by the helpers in exo-open.  To observe this, start with a clean xfce profile (no custom helpers configured) with on a machine with www-client/firefox-bin installed, and attempt to run:

> exo-open --launch WebBrowser

...notice the dialog...it's supposed to know about Firefox automatically, but it doesn't.  The attached patch fixes the issue.

Comment 1 Gleb 2016-02-14 16:39:55 UTC

I can confirm this issue because I use Xfce for a long time and I was surprised when I didn't find Firefox in preferred appliactions list. I knew it was something because of firefox-bin. It looks like this patch is trivial.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2020-02-07 17:42:52 UTC

Could someone submit this patch upstream, please?