[Desktop] Brave cannot be set as the default browser on Arch Linux

[arch-btw]

Description

~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list is depreciated, but brave still uses it.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Brave on KDE
2. Open Brave

Actual result:

Brave is not your default browser (when it is).

Expected result:

Brave should be default browser.

Reproduces how often:

Always.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.14.2 Chromium: 84.0.4147.105 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

Nightly

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Not sure
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Not sure
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Don't know

Miscellaneous Information:

Symlinking fixes this.
ln -s ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
As according to:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_MIME_Applications#mimeapps.list

[rebron]

cc: @fmarier Can you take a look?

[fmarier]

It looks like this is coming from the outdated version of xdg-mime that ships with Chromium. For comparison, the one that ships in Debian as part of the xdg-utils package uses .config/mimeapps.list.

In the official packages, that's not an issue because there is a dependency on the system xdg-utils package both in the .deb and the .rpm. I don't see that in the Arch brave-bin package though.

I would suggest you reach out to the maintainer of the Arch package. We can leave this issue open until the extra dependency gets added there.

[fmarier]

Actually, we already have a bug tracking this problem: #2377

I added the work-around that you discovered. It would be great to get the Arch maintainer to add the extra dependency to see whether that resolves the issue.