Current Spyder demo via MyBinder doesn't have Web browser working in easy to launch way

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Problem Description

Current Spyder demo via MyBinder doesn’t have qutebrowser working. I see here that qutebrowser was removed and a simple web browser in PyQt was added. Is opening from inside Spyder meant to be the way to trigger opening this simple browser?
This addition to binder/Desktop/Web browser.desktop makes me think it should be registered somehow or a desktop icon added?:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Web Browser
Exec=/bin/bash -c "exec ${HOME}/binder/web_browser/start.py"
# FIXME: Don't hardcode Path?
Icon=/home/jovyan/binder/web_browser/browser.png
Path=/home/jovyan/Desktop

By ‘Current Spyder demo via MyBinder’, I mean the one linked to with the launch binder badge on the main Spyder GitHub repo page presently. Here.

Right now the URL there is: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/spyder-ide/binder-environments/spyder-stable?urlpath=git-pull%3Frepo%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fgithub.com%252Fspyder-ide%252FSpyder-Workshop%26urlpath%3Ddesktop%252F%26branch%3Dmaster

What is that addition meant to update?

Trying Web browser under Applications doesn’t open it. (Also right clicking on the desktop and selecting ‘Web Browser’ under ‘Applications’ doesn’t work.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Launch the Binder demo and try to open Web browser under applications
2. Pointing Spyder at binder/web_browser/start.py and running that triggers the web browser to open. (So the added browser does indeed work.) Is that the only intended route to launch the browser now?
3. Running exec ~/binder/web_browser/start.py in a terminal also starts the web broswer.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Browser should open from Web browser under Applications but doesn’t.

Versions

Commit 818622ca863bf1618269910eaef47fe061e2c925 of binder-environments

[ccordoba12]

I think we can simply add a “Web browser” to spyder-stable image. I’ll take care of that.

I just took care of it.

[dalthviz]

Hi @fomightez thank you from the feedback! What link are you using to launch the binder instance? I tried the master branch binder-environments link and seems like the image needed an update. After waiting a some time, the launched vm instance has the web browser icon and I’m able to launch a browser clicking on it:

Any other info to check if there are issues still with the binder setups will be greatly appreciated, let us know!