Why does my mail client/web browser not appear in GNOME?

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Nov 11 14:21:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 12:14 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 19:21 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Or why is my dingus click not working?
> > 
> > Your web browsers and mail clients need to handle
> > "x-scheme-handler/http"[1] and "x-scheme-handler/mailto" respectively to
> > be listed in the GNOME default applications in the new control-center.
> > 
> > Once our default applications are setup, I'll make the necessary changes
> > in shared-mime-info for the applications to be picked up.
> > 
> > See:
> > http://www.hadess.net/2010/10/new-control-center-and-you.html
> > and
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html#id2869854
> > 
> > for details.
> > 
> > [1]: And probably x-scheme-handler/https
> 
> on the topic of the new control-center, any chance of making it work at
> all any time soon? :)
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651510

2.91.2 was built 2 days ago. Though it might not be installable because
we need a new gnome-media, and get libgnome-media-profiles into rawhide.

Reviews welcome:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651863

Cheers



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