Thanks for your report. It is indeed a bold new day.

I'm looking into some more universal/non-gvfs-dependent alternatives
for making this work, though it looks like the simplest option will be
to do as you suggest.

sney

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Christopher Hagar <cmha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: hexchat
> Version: 2.9.6.1-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Mr. Rhodes:
>
> In order to set the default URL Handler for "Open Link in Browser", the user
> must either have Gnome installed, or use "gvfs-mime", which is available in 
> the
> gvfs-bin package.
>
> See 
> http://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-change-what-browser-is-opened
>
> The default URL handler apparently cannot be set from the
> Settings->URL Handlers dialog, and is necessary for both
> Right Click->Open Link in Browser and to open a URL with a single-click (from
> the gui_url_mod setting).
>
> Apparently also, this package (or one of its dependencies) must remain 
> installed
> in order for the setting to continue working.
>
> Therefore, I suggest a Suggests dependency on gvfs-bin. Alternatively, it 
> would
> be nice to be able to set the default handler accessible with a single click
> from within Hexchat, or outside of Gnome tools.
>
> Thank you for packaging Hexchat. It is a bold new day.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris Hagar
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages hexchat depends on:
> ii  hexchat-common       2.9.6.1-1
> ii  libatk1.0-0          2.10.0-2
> ii  libc6                2.17-97
> ii  libcairo2            1.12.16-2
> ii  libcanberra0         0.30-2
> ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.0-1
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.102-1
> ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-2
> ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-1
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.28.2-1+b1
> ii  libglib2.0-0         2.38.2-5
> ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.22-1
> ii  libnotify4           0.7.6-2
> ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.0-1+b1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.0-1+b1
> ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.36.0-1+b1
> ii  libpci3              1:3.2.1-2
> ii  libperl5.18          5.18.2-2
> ii  libproxy1            0.4.11-4
> ii  libpython2.7         2.7.6-5
> ii  libsexy2             0.1.11-2+b1
> ii  libssl1.0.0          1.0.1f-1
> ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-1
> ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-3
>
> hexchat recommends no packages.
>
> hexchat suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information


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