Bugs item #1963644, was opened at 2008-05-14 04:03 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by eighthave You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1963644...

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Status: Closed

Resolution: None Priority: 2 Private: No Submitted By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: http-links do not open...

Initial Comment: when i click on "Help->report bug" i get the following error on the stderr and nothing happens:

/usr/bin/gnome-open 'http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=55736&atid=478070' Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location.

same with all other http URLs. the IRC-one works fine (it also uses gnome-open)

this is on debian lenny/sid with Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080514-debian-stable-i386.deb

i am using KDE and not gnome.

i have never touched the settings of gnome-open, so i am not sure why it does not work...

most likely (well, i am sure that) this is problem of gnome-open; however i think it does not add to a positive first glance...

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)

Date: 2008-05-15 15:50

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I added xdg-utils as a recommended package, since it includes xdg-open, which should open irc:// URLs. I am going to leave the browsers in as a fallback, since it is better opening only http:// than nothing at all.

I'm going to leave it at that and close this report, if anyone wants to take this up, they can reopen this bug.

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Comment By: Frank Barknecht (fbar) Date: 2008-05-15 14:11

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sensible-browser will not do that, but neither do firefox, iceweasel or lynx:

$ lynx irc://localhost Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!

If you want to open irc-urls as well, you shouldn't include any pure webbrowsers in the choice list.

But if you want to start any webbrowser, sensible-browser is the standard Debian tool. It allows users to configure their favourite web browser in a central place. Many other Debian packages use sensible-browser for that task.

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2008-05-15 13:20

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AFAIK, gnome-open will open any type of URL, like irc://, etc. and send it to the correct app. That is why I put gnome-open and xdg-open first. Will 'sensible-browser' do that?

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Comment By: Frank Barknecht (fbar) Date: 2008-05-15 09:34

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sorry, I meant: "I would NOT do a real "depends" for debianutils..."

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Comment By: Frank Barknecht (fbar) Date: 2008-05-15 09:31

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I think, for Debian packages "sensible-browser" should be the first one. If not already done, you could add a recommendation for "debianutils" to the dependencies for the package, sensible-browser is part of that. I would do a real "depends" for debianutils, as Pd works without browser as well. Many people don't use Gnome, especially on dedicated audio machines, and sensible-browser in turn can start the other browsers. If it doesn't start the correct browser it's a bug in the Debian package and we could report it upstream.

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2008-05-15 07:36

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Here's the current code:

http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/branches/pd-extended/v...

549 foreach candidate \ 550 { gnome-open xdg-open sensible-browser iceweasel firefox mozilla \ 551 galeon konqueror netscape lynx } { 552 set browser [lindex [auto_execok $candidate] 0] 553 if {[string length $browser]} { 554 puts stderr [format "%s '%s'" $browser $filename] 555 exec -- sh -c [format "%s '%s'" $browser $filename] & 556 break 557 } 558 }

If someone wants to test this more in depth, and make a patch, that would be quite useful.

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Comment By: Rich E (reakin) Date: 2008-05-15 00:57

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It works here, using Ubuntu Gutsy and Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080509-ubuntu-gutsy-i386.deb

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2008-05-14 08:49

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Since you are using KDE, I recommend:

apt-get remove gnome-open

The URLs in the Help menu work for me on Ubuntu, Debian/GNOME, Mac OS X, and Windows. I don't use KDE at all, so if you can make it work better there, please do.

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