Re: Patch for 81615 - viewing HTML pages in web browser by default

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 17:10, Alex Larsson wrote:
> On 14 May 2002, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've added a patch to:
> > 
> >    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81615
> > 
> > All it does is change the 'default_action_type' to 'application' for
> > HTML pages, so it will show a web browser by default rather than the
> > text component.
> 
> This change of course breaks gnome 1 due to gnome-mime-data being shared.

I suppose another option is to leave the default as the mozilla
component, and remove the text viewer component.

So if it can't find the mozilla component it will try a web browser.

But what happens if the old mozilla component is installed? Does it
handle that nicely?

Damon