284971 - Need to distinguish between different copies of the same app in default browser popup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

On my machine, the default browser popup contains 3 copies of Camino, 2
Firefoxes, 3 Mozillas etc. I'd love to be able to tell which of the duplicate
copies is which, by showing enough of the paths that differ.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Screenshot of default browser popup

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This was a actually a bug in the duplicate removal code (which just wasn't
working). I changed the code to use a NSMutableSet, thus avoiding the need to do
any duplicate removal.

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Patch

This is what I checked in; note the additional error checking on
LSFindApplicationForInfo that was necessary on my machine to fix an exception
that happened finding Omniweb 5.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: Default browser popup in Safari and Camino

Was this fix supposed to provide a way to differentiate between versions of an
installed browser (e.g., 0.8.2 and 0.8+) in the list or only offer in the list
one version of each browser?

Safari does the former (e.g., listing "Camino (0.8.2)" and "Camino (0.8+)" when
both are installed), while Cm 2005030708 (v0.8+) only lists one version of each
browser (which I can tell by name happens to be the lowest-numbered version,
even though the "(V.n)" is not displayed).

If it's possible to implement, the Safari method seems more useful to those
people with multiple copies--and folks without multiple copies installed should
never notice the difference....