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Bug 628709 - gnome-default-applications-properties does not set needs_term for mailer presets
gnome-default-applications-properties does not set needs_term for mailer presets
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Preferred applications
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-03 15:07 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2010-12-07 16:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2010-09-03 15:07:48 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/628293
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537278

"If you select mutt as a preferred mail reader application in gnome-default-application-properties, it is not automatically set to run in a terminal. The gconf property /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/needs_terminal isn't set either to the correct value, which is found in gnome-default-applications.xml.

1. On a default install of Ubuntu lucid, install mutt

Expected result :
 command = mutt %s
 needs_terminal = true
 enabled = true

Actual result :
 command = mutt %s
 needs_terminal = false
 enabled = true

You will find enclosed a patch that corrects this behavior for the Mail Reader, but I think that the same problem concerns the Web Browser and the Multimedia player."

patch:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/628293/+attachment/1535168/+files/120_default_applications_run_in_terminal.patch
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-12-07 16:33:07 UTC 
The "custom" command entry is gone in GNOME 3. You should instead install a .desktop file that handles the x-scheme-handler/mailto mime-type. The "Terminal" line will be respected.