Software Updater

Changelog links don't open default browser

Bug #337693 reported by Martijn Vermaat
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Bug Description

The clickable links from the package changelog as shown in the changes tab open in Firefox and not in the default browser.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Set Epiphany as your default browser in System->Preferences->Default Applications
2) Click on a link in the Update Manager changes tab

Expected behaviour:
The link opens in your default browser (Epiphany)

Observed behaviour:
The link opens in Firefox

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Martijn Vermaat (mvermaat) wrote :

So this seems to be introduced in

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-core-dev/update-manager/main/revision/968

Here, exo-open (Xfce url and file opener) gets preference over gnome-open (Gnome equivalent) and the two don't necessarily do the same thing.

On my system, both are installed, and I was running Gnome.

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Martijn Vermaat (mvermaat) wrote :

I think xdg-open from xdg-utils should be used (or at least tried first) here, although the way they test which DE is running also seems a bit hackish (but at leas they provide some standard command).

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