Browser should start when clicking on a URL in terminal window

Hello,

To access a link:

To access a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is displayed in a terminal, perform the following steps:

       1. Move the mouse over the URL until the URL is underlined.

       2. Right-click on the URL to open a popup menu.

       3. Choose Open Link to start a link application and display the file located at the URL.

I can confirm that in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS this function works. Can you try the following steps to see if this helps?

Regards,

kreggz

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

I'd like to revert this to a bug. Make it a wishlist one, if appropriate.

The thing is this: I, as a knowledgeable user (blablabla), have expected things in any OS to 'just work', be 'intuitive', or otherwise being a (usability) bug. I've known some OSes in which there were a lot of usability bugs, but in linux, these bugs are generally accepted as a bug.

To the point: hovering over a link underlines the link, changes the cursor and generally suggests that you can do something with it.

Left-clicking does nothing _at all_, not even copying the address. Just _nothing_. That is a usability bug, if I've ever seen one. I've read the gnome terminal manual and confirm that this is not a bug in Ubuntu per se, but in the upstream package. Nevertheless, making the default action to just open the link (which is the first selection in the context menu) would make many people happy, I guess.

Thanks!

I second David's request. I'm a very seasoned user, Unix administrator, and I regularly use several different platforms. This is silliness. The behavior should be that left-click launches the browser, right click provides a context menu with an option to launch the browser, copy the link, and if you want to get fancy, e-mail the link.

This has just got to be fixed. :(

If I had to go hunting and Googling for this, what do you think the average end-user is going to think? What happened to the whole papercuts campaign?

The usability issue created here is great enough to warrant this to be a bug. Read the comments, and if you want further opinions, look here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1228073

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!