Your message dated Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:28:49 +1000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: #654889: desktop-file-utils: update-desktop-database corrupts mimeinfo.cache has caused the Debian Bug report #654889, regarding desktop-file-utils: update-desktop-database corrupts mimeinfo.cache to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: desktop-file-utils Version: 0.18-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I´m NOT using gnome, i´m a FVWM-User, and there is the Problem, when i try to Open a PDF-file in Iceweasel or nautilus, this Programs always start gv instead of evince, xpdf or acroread. update-desktop-database puts /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache alwas gv.desktop at first in the line application/pdf. I found out, that there is also a file defaults.list in this directory, which should handle personal preferences to default-programms. But this file is ignored. So i found a this line " * Remove defaults.list stuff, it’s all in gnome-session now." in the changelog.Debian.gz from desktop-file-utils... So i can´t set defaults for every user on my machine. I can only set a default-application in ~/.local/share/applications/default.list for every user... And this isn´t documentated... It took me a very long time, to find that out. Remember, not everyone is using gnome, so it would be fine, if there is a possibility to find the information in the man-page, or better, put in again this stuff into update-desktop-file-utils. regards Jakob -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages desktop-file-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.13-24 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-4 desktop-file-utils recommends no packages. desktop-file-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Dear Jakob, "defaults.list" used to be installed to "/etc/gnome" so I doubt it could be of any use for you. `xdg-open` search for "applications/mimeapps.list" in the following folders: $HOME/.local/share/ /usr/local/share /usr/share To create a global override for all users you need to make a following file: /usr/local/share/applications/mimeapps.list with contents like this (for example): [Added Associations] application/pdf=evince.desktop;qpdfview.desktop;xpdf.desktop;gv.desktop I agree that this information could be better documented, but `xdg-open` is not provided by "desktop-file-utils" package... Anyway I'm considering adding it to README. Meanwhile I'm closing this bug since it is not a problem in "desktop-file-utils" and there is nothing left to do about it. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. -- Winston Churchill
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