Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 491111
rhn-applet-gui has traceback when firefox is not there
Last modified: 2010-08-03 03:31:48 EDT
Description of problem: rhn-applet-gui Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.1.27-6.el4 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. default installation of RHEL4 = its without firefox 2. register to rhn 3. left click to icon in tray (!) 4. click "RHN Website..." 5. traceback: Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 418, in load_website gnome.url_show("https://rhn.redhat.com/") gobject.GError: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location Expected results: write message: default browser is not specified Additional info: There isn't firefox in default installation of rhel4. Default browser is maybe konqueror maybe none. There is icon (functionless) to firefox in panel but package firefox is not there.
Taking. I understand the issue but what do you propose to do if firefox is not installed? We cannot just try to run random programs (konqueror) to try to launch the thing. And not running the applet probably also is out of question. In a sense, I feel that this error message is the most sensible we can do for the user.
Given we don't have some sensible proposal about what should happen, closing.