1835141 - deb: Register Firefox as Gnome search provider

Status: NEW

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Darkspirit]

Depends on bug 1835135.

Readme: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/shell/search-provider-files/README
Example: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/shell/search-provider-files/firefox-search-provider.ini
https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/firefox-gnome-shell-search-provider/

What Fedora does: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox/blob/main/f/firefox.spec#_931

Source34: firefox-search-provider.ini
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/gnome-shell/search-providers
cp %{SOURCE34} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/gnome-shell/search-providers

Debian:

• Add browser.gnome-search-provider.enabled=true to https://github.com/mozilla-partners/deb/blob/main/desktop/deb/distribution/distribution.ini.

• Install/place a /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME.search-provider.ini file:

  [Shell Search Provider]
  DesktopId=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME.desktop
  BusName=org.mozilla.<MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME with "-" replaced with "_">.SearchProvider
  ObjectPath=/org/mozilla/<MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME with "-" replaced with "_">/SearchProvider
  Version=2
  

  MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME can be firefox, firefox-beta, firefox-aurora, firefox-nightly, firefox-esr.
  Maybe generate that file together with the desktop file (bug 1824327).

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Test command for manually placing a search provider file:
$ MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=firefox-nightly; DBUS_NAME=${MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME/-/_}; sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers; echo -e "[Shell Search Provider]\nDesktopId=$MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME.desktop\nBusName=org.mozilla.$DBUS_NAME.SearchProvider\nObjectPath=/org/mozilla/$DBUS_NAME/SearchProvider\nVersion=2" | sudo tee -a /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/$MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME.search-provider.ini > /dev/null

$ cat /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/*firefox*.ini

[Shell Search Provider]
DesktopId=firefox-nightly.desktop
BusName=org.mozilla.firefox_nightly.SearchProvider
ObjectPath=/org/mozilla/firefox_nightly/SearchProvider
Version=2