[Slackbuilds-users] Admins - Question about Brave browser

[Andrew Payne]

I'll pose this to the admins.

I would be happy to add this to the readme:

This slackbuild will adjust MIME settings for Brave. If you
wish to retain your current MIME settings, you can remove:

if [ -x /usr/bin/update-mime-database ]; then
    /usr/bin/update-mime-database usr/share/mime >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

from the doinst.sh file before building.

++

OR pull the MIME lines out of doinst.sh altogether.

Thoughts?


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> Subject: 	[Slackbuilds-users] Question about Brave browser
> Date: 	Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:54:05 -0600
> From: 	Luveh Keraph <1.41421 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: 	SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> To: 	SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
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> I have installed the Brave browser in my 15.0 system using the
> Slackbuilds software for the purpose. I noticed that, after the
> installation is completed, some MIME handling settings are silently
> changed:
>
>  Â  Â  $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
>  Â  Â  brave-browser.desktop
>
>  Â  Â  $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
>  Â  Â  brave-browser.desktop
>
> Before installing Brave, the output of these commands was, in my case,
> chromium.desktop. The default browser setting remains unchanged though:
>
>      $ xdg-settings  get default-web-browser
>  Â  Â  Â chromium.desktop
>
> The above changes imply that when clicking on a link embedded in an
> email in Thunderbird, the Brave browser will be launched, instead of
> whatever was the default before - Chromium, in my case.  This is OK if
> you want to use the Brave browser for that purpose. It is, however, a
> bit annoying that the changes are carried out under the wraps and
> without asking the person in charge of the installation of this browser
> whether such an action is what one wants to do - installing a browser
> does not necessarily mean that it is meant to become the default browser
> for MIME data handling.
>
> It is easy enough to restore the MIME settings to what they were - in my
> case I would do
>
>  Â  Â  $ xdg-mime default chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
>  Â  Â  $ xdg-mime default chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
>
> However, it would be nice if the installation software were not to
> change the MIME settings silently, or, at the very least, for the
> documentation in the Slackbuilds installer to warn about this action and
> explain how to revert it.
>
> Looking into the files in the Slackbuilds installation software it would
> seem that doinst.sh has something to do with all this, but being totally
> ignorant about such issues, I wouldn't know - the xdg-mime recipes that
> I mentioned I got from a network search, they work for me, and that's
> all I know about them.