[Evolution] Bug#583302: Bug#583302: evolution: Ignores gnome default browser setting

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 08:05 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2010-05-26 at 16:19 -0500, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > Package: evolution
> > Version: 2.30.1.2-3
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Evolution is ignoring my preference for default web browser when I
> > click on links.
> > 
> > default-applications-properties is set to iceweasel,
> > x-www-browser is set to iceweasel
> > $BROWSER is set to iceweasel
> > 
> > and yet Evolution chooses chromium-browser instead. 
> 
> Yes, Evolution uses the default http/https handlers, not the default
> applications. I don't know where the setting can be tuned in GNOME, but
> it's in gconf-editor in /desktop/gnome/url-handlers
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Cheers,

It's not using /desktop/gnome/url-handlers, because those are set to
sensible-browser (which should use either x-www-browser or $BROWSER to
select the right browser). And strace shows me that sensible-browser is
not getting called.

--Ken