[Bug 266778] emulators/virtualbox-ose VM VirtualBox Manager: Help menu: unable to open external browser
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Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 23:31:45 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=266778
Bug ID: 266778
Summary: emulators/virtualbox-ose VM VirtualBox Manager: Help
menu: unable to open external browser
Product: Ports & Packages
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: Individual Port(s)
Assignee: vbox@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: martin@bxlr.sk
Flags: maintainer-feedback?(vbox@FreeBSD.org)
Assignee: vbox@FreeBSD.org
Created attachment 237030
--> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=237030&action=edit
patch to fix PATH
In VirtualBox Manager, QT based GUI, there's a menu Help that has several help
items. E.g. "VirtualBox Forums" which should navigate user to a proper webpage.
Under FreeBSD user is presented with error dialogue blaming desktop environment
(DE). Error occurs even if DE is fully capable of doing so (opening
browser,etc.).
Short description of the problem: /usr/local/bin/virtualbox shell wrapper is
setting PATH variable to a very generic one excluding /usr/local/bin. Due to
this browsers outside this PATH are not found.
Handling URL is done by QT's QDesktopServices API. During the resolving
detectWebBrowser() is called:
https://codebrowser.dev/qt5/qtbase/src/platformsupport/services/genericunix/qgenericunixservices.cpp.html#_ZL16detectWebBrowserRK10QByteArraybP7QString
which calls findExecutable()
https://codebrowser.dev/qt5/qtbase/src/corelib/io/qstandardpaths.cpp.html#_ZN14QStandardPaths14findExecutableERK7QStringRK11QStringList
Here qgetenv("PATH") is called which is used as PATH to search executables.
It makes sense to expand the PATH to include FreeBSD's standard /usr/local/bin
as that's native path for ports programs.
I've added the patch towards the virtualbox-ose-6.1.36.
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