Bug#832298: firefox: Setting default browser creates a new .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le 24/07/16 à 00:58, Laurent Bigonville a écrit :
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:27:04 +0200 Laurent Bigonville 
> <bigon at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When clicking a the button in the options to set the default 
> browser, it
> > creates a new .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications.
> >
> > This confuse gnome-control-center. Also, I don't see this happening in
> > Fedora and this shouldn't happen in debian.
> >
> > What I can see is that in this .desktop file the path to the executable
> > is /usr/lib/firefox/firefox and not just "firefox", I feel this is
> > related.
>
> OK, the issue is that in debian, the MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER environment 
> variable is not set like it is in fedora.
>
> In Fedora it set in a wrapper script (along with other environment 
> variables), see [0]
>
> Shouldn't this wrapper script (or something similar) be added in 
> debian too?

The run-mozilla.sh script should probably be shipped in the package as well.