Unable to open HTTP urls with xdg-open in the container

[cadubentzen]

When using VSCode in the container and clicking to to sign in to GitHub, it tries to open a browser window with xdg-open, but it fails to do so.

Installing gvfs-backends fixes it. It increases the container size by 58.3 MB.

[TingPing]

I'm not sure what gvfs-backends would do.

One solution is having a browser inside of the container. Previously I tried using the portal to open URLs on the host, which works fine for http, but not for file. Maybe we should just have a script that splits their handling.

[cadubentzen]

There's epiphany installed in the container already, but VSCode is unable to launch it without gvfs-backends installed.

[ptomato]

FWIW, Toolbx is able to handle this by launching a Flatpak on the host system that handles the URL. This has mixed success. For example, it opens the URL with Chromium now that I have Chromium as a Flatpak. Before that, it opened the URL with GNOME Builder.

[TingPing]

This is the recent change btw c6f192e, I just did it because I had to open a lot of file:// URIs. Returning it with that fixed shouldn't be much effort.

[nikolaszimmermann]

@TingPing any news on this?