[Reportbug-maint] Bug#536873: Bug#536873: reportbug ignores the "prefered browser" gnome setting

[Sandro Tosi]

reopen 536873
thanks

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 19:18, Sandro Tosi<morph at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:13, Alexandre Fournier<brutus at free.fr> wrote:
>> OK, but wasn't that call to the browser precisely performed from the GUI
>> frontend of reportbug? In that case, setting the front-end to use xdg-open would
>> not harm the users who use the text UI, would it?
>
> we call a common method in all the UIs, that calls sensible-browser
> just to avoid to select the relevant browser in the UI itself (and
> also because I can use text in a DE and want to use the graphical
> browser)

I've changed my mind: right now I'm changing the code to use xdg-open
instead of sensible-browser; x-o is able to select the DE selected
browser, or falls back to s-b if can't find any.

>> In any case, this is a minor inconvenience, since for now, the only visible call
>> is a link to the reportbug homepage, which is not critical for the program
>> usability.
>>
>> Best regards and thank you for the work on reportbug. This tool is what we,
>> users, need to provide a significant feedback.
>
> you're welcome.
>
> That said, I close this report :) I've just filed a bug about it to
> sensible-utils package.

in particular because I suggest to integrate s-b directly inside x-o :)

Cheers,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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