Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Package: xdg-utils > Version: 1.0.2-3 > Severity: normal > > I can't get 'xdg-mime query' to output anything at all. > > [12:27AM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l output.ps > -rw-r--r-- 1 hamish hamish 10212505 2008-02-06 22:22 output.ps > [12:27AM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ xdg-mime query filetype output.ps > [12:27AM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ xdg-mime query default application/postscript > [12:27AM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ > > By setting $XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL I found that 'query filetype' is using > gnomevfs-info, which is only a Suggestion of xdg-utils'. The command > should print an error if it can't actually call gnomevfs-info.
Yes, this is true. Actually, it should also try to call "file" if it can't find gnomevfs-info. > Having installed gnomevfs-info, query filetype works but query default > still does not: [...] > I don't know why xdg-mime would check under gdm/applications? Should be > gnome, surely. It checks there because the path is included in the variable $XDG_DATA_DIRS from the environment. I don't know where it is set, maybe by gdm or gnome-session. But you're right: it should check /usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
