#1009615 forcibly starts chromium on several functions

Package:
nextcloud-desktop
Source:
nextcloud-desktop
Description:
Nextcloud folder synchronization tool
Submitter:
Toni Mueller
Date:
2022-06-20 22:03:03 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#1009615#5
Date:
2022-04-12 20:45:24 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I am running nextcloud-desktop in my .xsessionrc. When it starts, it
also fires up chromium, which I have installed, but which I rarely use.
Also, for a number of other activities, which were formerly part of the
nextcloud desktop client, it now also fires up chromium, although
chromium is not my standard browser. I have not found a way to make
nextcloud-client use my standard browser, which happens to be
firefox-esr, for such things, and I am also not prepared to run a second
browser in parallel just to interact with Nextcloud. In fact, I interact
with Nextcloud just fine using Firefox, and if these functions are only
available in the browser these days, they should imho be removed from
the menu. I can start a web browser myself, thank you very much!


Thanks,
Toni

#1009615#10
Date:
2022-06-20 21:53:00 UTC
From:
To:
Hey,

you can configure the browser that opens from Nextcloud desktop, I use the
Torbrowser ( I configured it in KDE). Nextcloud.desktop has no hard-coded link
to Chromium! Internally it uses QDesktopServices::openUrl(url) to open the
url. You have to search how QDesktopServices detect the browser in charge.

well this discussion you need to make with upstream[1], as I don't want to
extend the diff between upstream for features that are working.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop

Regards,

hefee