Hi, I stomped on these reports by chance, and since I know why this is happening, I thought I’d give some explanations.
The MIME associations in gnome-vfs and gio used to look for defaults in the hardcoded /usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list. However the default should not be the same when you are running GNOME, XFCE or LXDE, all of which use the same MIME system. This is why this defaults.list is now contained in gnome-session, which also sets XDG_DATA_DIRS accordingly so that file is used by any application when running a GNOME session. When not using gnome-session, the system chooses the first application in lexical order. Now, XFCE and LXDE will probably ship their own defaults.list sooner or later. As for those running a custom session, this is another story. The XDG MIME system is seriously lacking a priority setting which could be used to select the most appropriate application. We could ship a distribution-wide defaults.list, but it would have to be autogenerated based on some heuristics; this would be a package on its own, that would need to be cared about. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling
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