[thunderbird] Default browser is no longer read from prefs

[Steve Clark]

On 04/13/2011 03:26 AM, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 06:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 04/13/2011 06:47 AM, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>> commit 7986a8567a9dbb2a6f8187b91a021d5ad350f96f
>>> Author: Christopher Aillon<caillon at redhat.com>
>>> Date:   Tue Apr 12 18:15:07 2011 -0700
>>>
>>>       Default browser is no longer read from prefs
>>>
>>>       It's read from the system.  Too bad that means GConf for now...
>>>
>>>       This means the open browser script isn't used either, so kill that.
>>
>> This should go into the desktop beat for the release notes along with
>> the gconf key needed.
>
> No.  This has been the case since Fedora 11, actually.  It just didn't
> matter since gconf was where the defaults were kept anyway, and
> gnome-default-application-preferences set the gconf keys, and it never
> got cleaned out.
>
> Now, we're setting _gsettings_ keys in control center, so those gconf
> keys aren't getting updated when the user toggles that.  But it doesn't
> matter.  I pushed an update to the default gconf values to launch
> gvfs-open as the default browser which will read the values out of
> gsettings.
>
> This should all be transparent to the user, no need to document stuff
> that just works.
I think that is the wrong attitude! Because at some point it is going to break
and the poor enduser is going to have no idea why. This is the Microsoft attitude.


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