[Bug 513133] Re: When chromium is the only browser installed, i'm still asked to make it the default

[Michael Terry]

I suspect that Google is trying to cover all its bases (why it checks
all the gconf keys *and* the xdg-mime value) so that no matter what
goofy launch mechanism is used, chromium will come up.  So they would
likely accept a patch that checked/set alternatives as well as others if
on a Debian system.

As for whether the Debian packaging would disable the other checks...
I'm not sure.  There is some value setting all those fields, since the
world of 'what to launch' is complicated and many apps check different
things.

One complication I'm noticing here is that when chromium actually does
the check, it calls "which" and "readlink -f" on the command in its
desktop file.  This causes two bugs: You need to set the full path in
the gconf fields, which is not normal or the default, and further, that
it finds the 'chromium-browser' in /usr/lib/chromium-browser first
(because PATH is prefixed with that dir by the /usr/bin wrapper) and
thus the gconf values must actually match /usr/lib/chromium-browser
/chromium-browser.

We should probably patch xdg-settings to at least not call
which/readlink.

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