GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 123487
Setting the http handler doesn't also set the https handler
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Filed in redhat bugzilla as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105740
Attached patch adds the https settings to Web Browser tab. This lets the user to configure a custom browser for https also (not necessarily same as http browser). The required changes are made in gnome-default-applications-properties.c and the gui changes are made with glade-2 in gnome-default-applications-properties.glade
Created attachment 21373 [details] [review] proposed patch
I find it very unlikely that a normal user would want to use a different browser for secure links than for regular ones. Can't we just set the same browser for http and https when people use the "Preferred Applications" interface, and let advanced users change fine-tune it though "File Types and Programs"?
Yeah, it's rare that a normal user would want to have seperate browsers for secured and non-secured sites. But as pointed out in the original defect in redhat bugzilla #105740, felt it's more convenient to have a provision to set the custom browser for https also using Prefered Applications. As the patch allows to configure the https browser in Web Browser tab itself along with the default browser, guess the usability/intuitiveness is not compromised.
I think the preferred browser should also handle "unknown" urls. In addition to GConf's /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http and /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https, the preferred browser setting should be applied to /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/default (right now it falls back on mozilla on my system even though I want to use epiphany).
*** Bug 142486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This seems fixed in control-center-2.6.1 as setting the "Web Browser" in "Preferred Applications" sets the http, https and unknown URL handlers. Could someone confirm this and mark this bug as fixed?
Still an issue here with 2.6.1, I'm updating the version 2.4 -> 2.6
Created attachment 29724 [details] [review] This is the patch that Red Hat is using to address this bug. Red Hat ships a control-center-2.6.1 package that contains this patch. It seems to resolve this RFE.
Created attachment 32556 [details] [review] updated patch, the file-types capplets has been removed in 2.8
Comment on attachment 32556 [details] [review] updated patch, the file-types capplets has been removed in 2.8 The risk here seems small and the benefits large. Lets get this in for 2.8.1
I agree. Will you commit it Sebastien?
Yes, I'm going to commit this patch and #148991 now
commited 2004-10-14 Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org> * gnome-default-applications-properties.c: (setup_peditors), (read_browser), (value_changed_cb): Use the Web Browser for https too. (Closes: #123487).