Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:05:56 +0200 From: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URL handling in Gnome broken, recently Message-ID: <4E3A7D14.90707@rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <1312371247.1786.19.camel@xenon> References: <1312371247.1786.19.camel@xenon>
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On 3-8-2011 13:34, Michal Varga wrote: > Does anyone know which update broke url handling in Gnome some time > recently, I'd assume in between last one-to-three weeks? > > I realized the symptoms too late to narrow it down to a specific port > now, and I have no idea what handles url requests - gnome-vfs, maybe, or > some friends above/below? > > Basically, opening an URL now from any gnome/gtk application is > completely fubared, clicking a web page link in something like > gnome-terminal, pidgin, etc. launches a new epiphany window instead of > reusing the old one and opening a new tab (thus completely ignoring > 'preferences> preferred applications' control panel), clicking a link > from evolution even silently fails half the time, or some times launches > a new browser instance about ten minutes later, clicking any http image > link first internally checks the mime type (or it seems so) on the > server and then launches the url in eog (merciful god, why), and so on. > > It's really impossible to work with URLs in Gnome at this moment, other > than manually copy/pasting them into a running browser every single > time. > > Some ideas on what went wrong? > > m. > > I don't know what went wrong. I'm going to see if I can find out some details about it. You said that after the glib+gtk update this issue started to show up? -Koop
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