Bug 429280

Summary:	xdg-open doesn't open URLs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version:	1.0.2-3.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Miroslav Lichvar 2008-01-18 14:31:48 UTC

Description of problem:
In generic DE (i.e no KDE, GNOME, XFCE), xdg-open doesn't open URLs when the
mimeopen utility is installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xdg-utils-1.0.2-2.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install perl-File-MimeInfo package
2. start plain X session
3. xdg-open 'http://fedoraproject.org/'
  
Actual results:
Error message:
Could not determine mimetype for file: http://fedoraproject.org/

Expected results:
The web page opened in a browser.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-01-18 14:40:49 UTC

Try this patch (to /usr/bin/xdg-open):

--- xdg-open.mimeopen   2008-01-18 08:39:40.000000000 -0600
+++ xdg-open    2008-01-18 08:38:10.000000000 -0600
@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@
         mimeopen -n "$1"
         if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
             exit_success
-        else
-            exit_failure_operation_failed
+#        else
+#            exit_failure_operation_failed
         fi
     fi

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-01-18 14:50:19 UTC

With the patch it works as expected. Thanks.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2008-01-18 14:53:08 UTC

%changelog
* Fri Jan 18 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 1.0.2-3
- fix mimeopen support (#429280)

Comment 4 Patrice Dumas 2008-01-18 15:04:34 UTC

This looks good. If no application is found or the application 
doesn't understand urls and exits (I tested with xpdf) the browser 
is used.

We have plans (with the mimeopen maintainer) to add support
for urls, by adding a Protocol entry in the desktop files to
have applications register which url protocol they understand,
and I submitted it to the xdg mailing list but so far there 
hasn't been many feedback.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2008-01-18 15:15:36 UTC

Patrice, thx, fyi, I've pushed the mimeinfo patch/changes (as-is now anyway)
upstream already.

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2008-01-18 16:10:51 UTC

Patrice, any links/references to the aforementioned submission(s) to the xdg list?

Comment 7 Patrice Dumas 2008-01-18 21:44:53 UTC

This is my proposal
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-November/009016.html

And Jaap mail
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-November/009020.html

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-01-22 15:52:44 UTC

xdg-utils-1.0.2-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-01-22 15:54:14 UTC

xdg-utils-1.0.2-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.