[Bug 705275] Re: rekonq is not the default web browser

[Davor Cubranic]

Looking at the system settings for file associations, here is the list for text/html:
- A Wine Application
- Firefox Web Browser
- A Wine Application
- rekonq
- kate
- OpenOffice.org Word Processor
- GNU Emacs 23
- notepad

The two 'Wine application' are coming from wine-extension-html.desktop and wine-extension-htm.desktop, respectively, in ~/.local/share/applications. What's not clear is:
- why one of the two local Wine shortcuts is listed first, and another third
- why Firefox (coming from /usr/share/applications) is in the second place
- and finally, why rekonq is only fourth, when it is the first for a clean Maverick install, *and* when konqueror was in the first place until my upgrade

It's straightforward enough to change the preference order for text/html
in the File Associations preference dialog. But it would be extremely
tedious to go through all the associations where rekonq is one of the
handlers (~50) one-by-one to ensure it's the preferred option. So as
part of the fixing of the bug, I would agree that the cleanup be done
across all known MIME types. The twist is that rekonq is not always in
the top place -- for example, on a clean install it's only the fourth
for type "application/x-ktesnippets". So the cleanup should just
mechanically make it the default handler, but tinstead ensure that the
relative order is not messed up by the Wine browser and Firefox. Just
because Firefox and Wine are installed does not mean that either is the
default browser.

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Title:
  rekonq is not the default web browser