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  1. Bug #708479
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 708479

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kyleabaker (kyleabaker) wrote : Re: Dash view should use "Prefferred Applications" icons where appropriate

@Olivier Tilloy
It seems that unity's "check" on the value of the /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec GConf key is faulty. I've got gconf-editor open and watching the browser value change between "firefox", "/usr/bin/opera" and "/usr/bin/chromium-browser". All of those are valid.

Also, a hard-coded whitelist seems like a really bad idea. Technically, if you manually edited this value to equal the path to Terminal (just as an example) then it should fetch the terminal icon and launch a Terminal window, not ignore it and select from a deprecated "whitelist" list.

I wonder if I should reopen this so the value is correctly evaluated and used without a "whitelist".