Bug 303100 – www-client/chromium: provide default-apps file for showing chromium as an option from gnome-default-applications-properties

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Pacho Ramos 2010-02-01 14:06:55 UTC]

I have prepared a xml file to be installed under:
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps

After placing it in that location, you will see an option in gnome-default-applications-properties to select Chromium as default browser

For now, it doesn't include any option for open new URLs on new tab or new window, since I don't know how to run chromium to open links in new windows

Thanks for including it :-)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-01 14:07:30 UTC]

Created attachment 218081 [details]
chromium.xml

[Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-02-01 19:22:10 UTC]

A little thing. I don't have gnome. Which package provides /usr/share/gnome-control-center/default-apps? My plan would be to add a gnome USE flag, if it is enabled then depend on the package and install the file.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-01 19:37:31 UTC]

It's provided by gnome-base/gnome-control-center , and this "splitted" way for including apps to gnome-default-applications-properties was implemented with gnome-control-center-2.23.5, then, as older one in tree is 2.24, it should also work with it (I have tested it with 2.26)

But I am unsure about if a RDEPEND on gnome-control-center would be strictly needed, since chromium will still work fine and that file wouldn't be used in that case. My original intention was to install that file unconditionally because of bug 198901 , but it's simply what I would probably done, maybe I am wrong :-)

Regards

[Comment 4 Bernard Cafarelli 2010-02-02 10:20:42 UTC]

If it's just a matter of installing a text file, indeed we could install it unconditionally (udev and logrotate flags got axed on this).

For new window/new tab, I'm sure there was a page on http://code.google.com/p/chromium that listed the command line flags, but I can't find it at the moment :/

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-02 11:01:57 UTC]

Seems that it has been implemented recently:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26728

then, we probably will need to wait a bit

[Comment 6 Bernard Cafarelli 2010-02-03 13:11:29 UTC]

Ok, in the meantime I've added the current version to 4.0.266-r1, 9999 and new 5.0.307.1, thanks for providing the file! 

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-03 13:24:03 UTC]

OK, feel free to ping me if you need an updated version when opening in new windows is supported :-)

Best regards