> I don't think that it would help a lot to hack parts of the mime detection
DE detection will solve it, but it would uglify the code and could break anytime DE change something etc. > > So the only to viable options I see are > > a) remove the xdg-open calls agree with this. > > aa) and maybe replace them with a list of the distro specific tools like > > mimeopen or run-mailcap (pretty long and ugly list ...) and also i think this should be the worry of distros devs. > > b) try push some changes to xdg-open and hope for a fast adoption rate > > within the Linux distribution oekosystem. afaik this is going to be longtime job if you want to solve it generally. but maybe Richard conceive something from the mimeopen stuff. pavel