Gnome not recognising Ice Cat as web browser

I've installed a few days ago Ice Cat and I wanted to use it as my default web browser, the only problem is it doesn't appear in my settings as a browser.
I already made a .desktop file for it specifying it was a web browser and adding a %U to the Exec=appPath line and created the proper Mime files according to the Wiki.
The only thing I did different is that instead of being logged in as a user I'm always root (I know, not a great idea) so I used /usr/share/mime instead of ~/.local/share/mime but there shouldn't be any issues.
Does anyone know why could this be?
Last edited by Kolt Penny (2013-10-03 15:31:51)

Kolt Penny wrote:It does. I was running it in root cause I was testing something.
I don't want to beat a dead horse, but hopefully can clarify a point: most users will tell you that running X as root is bad; there is truth to that, but it is not some mystical rule.  Other users who really know what they are doing chose to run X as root.  But in neither case would someone run something as root simply because it doesn't work as a regular user.
$ command
Some unrecongnized error
$ sudo command
That is a recipe for disaster.  If something doesn't work as you expected, learn about that thing, don't just hit it with a bigger hammer.  If something goes horribly wrong when running some new command as a regular user, you can fix it.  If something goes horribly wrong when running a new command as root, your only hope is that full system backup you just made.
As for the settings menu - is it supposed to show up there?  Doesn't the menu need to be configured to show what you want? How does the menu work, from where does it gather information for it's entries (I don't really know, I don't use gnome).

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