Bug 364891 – www-client/firefox-bin - extend desktop file

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2011-04-26 07:29:18 UTC]

broken off from bug 220915.

imho *-bin browsers should be included as default at least as a gentoo patch. i'm not familiar what drawbacks there would be trying make firefox-bin also launch as firefox (ditto for others).  since firefox-bin actually works for me and i'd  like to have firefox executable separate for my source builds, i'd suggest attacking this from xdg-utils side.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2011-04-26 07:32:22 UTC]

yes i am aware of $BROWSER. my situation was that i only became aware of $BROWSER because xdg-open started opening stuff with links2 in non-visible process space on rather fresh awesome-only setup. i definitely would've liked to spend these hours on something useful and have the browser part "just work"(tm).

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-04-26 16:55:00 UTC]

This looks kind of meagre:

cvs/gentoo-x86/www-client/firefox-bin $ cat files/firefox-bin.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mozilla Firefox (bin)
Comment=Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Exec=/usr/bin/firefox-bin %U
Icon=firefox-bin-icon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;

To me it looks like the firefox-bin desktop file could be extended instead of generating a complete list of defaults.

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2011-05-11 20:57:53 UTC]

Patches are welcome, otherwise this will fall to the bottom of the list. We are more interested/worried about source builds in gentoo instead of binary packages.

[Comment 4 Helder Rocha 2011-08-12 19:39:58 UTC]

Created attachment 283085 [details]
INstall of firefox-boin-5.0.1

[Comment 5 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2012-01-28 06:32:43 UTC]

This was fixed a few months ago by adding the `MimeType=x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;` line to the .desktop file. This is the XDG-recommended way of specifying browser associations.