[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#617723: chromium: Breaks Preferred Applications setting in Gnome

[Hongzheng Wang]

I just found this issue has been extensively investigated in one of
Debian mailing lists.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00300.html

It seems that the issue involves a strategic shift of Gnome itself.
So, I believe it is really not a bug of Chromium.  You may close the
bug report as you like.  Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Thanks.

HZ

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Hongzheng Wang <wanghz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: chromium
> Version: 10.0.648.114~r75702-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> I found a very annoy problem after installing chromium-browser.  That
> is, once this package is installed, the Default Browser of Preferred Applications in Gnome no longer works.  No matter which browser I set to default, chromium takes the role all the time.  For example, click an url in the dialog of About Gnome will always launch chromium.  xdg-open command also launches chromium even gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser are set to other browsers.
>
> Though chromium is very good browser, such a rude behavior is really
> unpleasant.
>
> Furthermore, a manually modification of mimeinfo.cache under
> /usr/share/applications/ seems to be able solve the problem temporarily.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>  APT prefers proposed-updates
>  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages chromium depends on:
> ii  chromium-inspector 10.0.648.114~r75702-1 page inspector for the chromium br
> ii  libasound2         1.0.23-2.1            shared library for ALSA applicatio
> ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
> ii  libc6              2.11.2-13             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-4              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> ii  libcups2           1.4.6-1               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
> ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.6-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.13-stable-1       An asynchronous event notification
> ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
> ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
> ii  libfreetype6       2.4.4-1               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
> ii  libgcc1            1:4.5.2-5             GCC support library
> ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.1-2              GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-5               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
> ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.1-1+b1           The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii  libicu44           4.4.2-2               International Components for Unico
> ii  libjpeg62          6b1-1                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
> ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.7-2               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
> ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.9-2              Network Security Service libraries
> ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-2~sid1         Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  libpng12-0         1.2.44-1              PNG library - runtime
> ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
> ii  libstdc++6         4.5.2-5               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libvpx0            0.9.6-1               VP8 video codec (shared library)
> ii  libx11-6           2:1.4.1-5             X11 client-side library
> ii  libxdamage1        1:1.1.3-1             X11 damaged region extension libra
> ii  libxext6           2:1.2.0-2             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
> ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2          GNOME XML library
> ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.6-1             X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-6              XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
> ii  libxss1            1:1.2.1-1             X11 Screen Saver extension library
> ii  libxtst6           2:1.2.0-1             X11 Testing -- Record extension li
> ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1-2           desktop integration utilities from
> ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime
>
> chromium recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages chromium suggests:
> pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>