Bug 1940

Summary:	Doesn't open links in user's default browser
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	Ricardo Mones <mones>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	users
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.7.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534050

Description Ricardo Mones 2009-06-30 10:33:25 UTC

Quoting original submitter:
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I noticed that claws always opens in Epiphany regardless of what the
user has selected as their default browser (in GNOME, not sure what
happens in other DEs). This is because of the patch to always use
x-www-browser, which doesn't DTRT WRT user selected defaults. The patch
that I'm attaching (which I uploaded to Ubuntu Karmic too) switches to
use xdg-open which does do the correct thing and will work across DEs
too.
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Using xdg-open by default would obsolete the current patch for x-www-browser (and this patch also would be unnecessary).

Comment 1 Colin Leroy 2009-06-30 10:37:54 UTC

There already is a pref "Use system defaults if possible" which uses xdg-open if it's in the $PATH. 

We introduced this preference in 3.2.0 (December 2007) and kept it OFF by default to avoid changing the default behaviour when users upgraded.

Maybe we could now switch in to ON by default, given that most of our users have upgraded during this year-and-a-half. I think a few default behaviour changes when upgrading 5 major versions (3.3, 3.4,3.5, 3.6, 3.7) is acceptable.

Comment 2 users 2009-07-01 17:54:41 UTC

Changes related to this bug have been committed.
Please check latest CVS and update the bug accordingly.
You can also get the patch from:
http://www.colino.net/claws-mail/

2009-07-01 [colin]	3.7.1cvs84

	* src/prefs_common.c
		Fix bug 1940, 'Doesn't open links in 
		user's default browser'. Turn the preference
		to TRUE by default; that will only change the
		behaviour for new users.