Unable to set default mail client - x-scheme-handler in snap .desktop files are ignored

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sounds like just another incarnation of:

Browser not setting itself as the default

On an Ubuntu 17.10 system currently Google Chrome (installed via deb) is my default browser. I installed brave browser with snap install brave --candidate then launched it from the command line. As expected brave launches and asks to be made the default. [image] I say “Use Brave”. I then try clicking a link but this launches in chrome, the previous default, not Brave. [image] Checking my desktop defaults in system settings, it looks like the button in Brave didn’t actually set itself as th…