Bug 10509 – icons for html files missing when using webkit as default browser

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Hardik Mehta]

I have a habit of using the nightly build of webkit as my default browser rather than safari. It works fine for me,  But when I do that, I lose all the good default icons for .html files on my mac and that looks ugly..

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

This happens because when you change HTML files to open with WebKit, it uses WebKit.app's icons on HTML files in the finder.  WebKit.app claims to have icons for these file types but in reality it doesn't.  It would be nice if we could use the default Safari icons in this situation, but as far as I can tell that would require distributing them inside the WebKit nightlies which is not something that I am allowed to do.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Would absolute paths work, by any chance?

<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>/Applications/Safari/Contents/Resources/document.icns</string>

Not fool-proof against relocated Safari bundles, of course, but probably better than nothing.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

That was one of the two options I was considering.  The second was to copy the icons into WebKit's bundle on first launch after discovering Safari's location.  This obviously wouldn't work if the user lacks write access to WebKit.  Perhaps a combination of the two is the best bet? 

[Hardik Mehta]

(In reply to comment #3)
> That was one of the two options I was considering.  The second was to copy the
> icons into WebKit's bundle on first launch after discovering Safari's location.
>  This obviously wouldn't work if the user lacks write access to WebKit. 
> Perhaps a combination of the two is the best bet? 
> 

   We  could work on this approach for now.

[Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders]]

invalid due to bug 217729 removing all supporting code for WebKit.app