Re: [Evolution] How does evolution pick the browser to open links with?

[Robert Munteanu <robert munteanu gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 12:20 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently performed a fresh install of my system and am now using
> > Evolution 3.16.0 ( openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64, KDE 4.14.6, GTK 3.16.0
> > ).
> >
> > I have set the Firefox as the default browser through KDE; xdg-open
> > https://some/link opens the link in Firefox as expected. I
> > double-checked using xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http (
> > and https ) and the result is kfmclient_html.desktop.
> >
> > However, Evolution uses Google Chrome to open all links from emails.
> > Any idea why that happens?
>
>         Hi,
> Evolution uses gtk_show_uri() to open most of the URIs, thus it might
> be something with the function internals which breaks the opening.
> I thought they do use the x-scheme-handler settings.
>         Bye,
>         Milan

Thanks for the pointer, it lead me in the right direction. It seems
that gnome has a different store for such settings:

$ gvfs-mime --query x-scheme-handler/http
Default application for 'x-scheme-handler/http': google-chrome.desktop
Registered applications:
        google-chrome.desktop
        firefox.desktop
Recommended applications:
        google-chrome.desktop
        firefox.desktop

I resorted to manually overriding it

$ gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/http firefox.desktop
Set firefox.desktop as the default for x-scheme-handler/http
$ gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/https firefox.desktop
Set firefox.desktop as the default for x-scheme-handler/https

Although I'm not terribly happy about it, it works.

Robert



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