[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[Rex Dieter via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

Rex Dieter  changed:

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 Resolution|--- |DUPLICATE
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED

--- Comment #8 from Rex Dieter  ---


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354179 ***

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[Rog131 via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

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--- Comment #7 from Rog131  ---
Same as  Bug 354179 - File associations cannot be changed if already defined in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mimeapps.list  - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354179

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[Kien Truong via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

--- Comment #6 from Kien Truong  ---
This is already fixed in git by commit

https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-cli-tools.git=commit=c4ebd9b537d749e5533ecaff5631debab4827760

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[Shimi Chen via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

--- Comment #5 from Shimi Chen  ---
Workaround:
rm ~/.config/mimeapps.list

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

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--- Comment #4 from mistachie...@hotmail.com ---
In addition to the above mentioned problem with regard paths to mimeapps.list,
there appears to be another issue.  I symlinked
.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to .config/mimeapps.list and still had
problems with specific filetypes such as PDFs

After a lot of research, I believe I've found the solution.  KDE and most other
DEs get information from a package that most distros call 'shared-mime-info'. 
This package contains a file called freedesktop.org.xml which in Arch Linux
(the distro I use) is stored under /usr/share/mime/packages, but may be stored
elsewhere on other distros.

Upon examining this file, I could see that some filetypes have aliases.  For
example, for application/pdf it has the aliases application/x-pdf, image/pdf,
and application/acrobat.  Whenever I tried to change the default application
for PDF to Okular, it would always revert just as is being shown here.  When I
checked .config/mimeapps.list, I could see that the entry for application/pdf
had been updated to put kde4-okular.desktop first, but the entries for the
other aliases had not been.  When I manually added kde4-okular.desktop as the
first entry for those aliases, I was able to move Okular the top of the list
and it stayed there.

I think the reason this bug is hard to reproduce is that it depends on whether
you have entries in your mimeapps.list file for aliases of filetypes you are
changing.  For example, I don't have the entry for 'application/acrobat' in my
mimeapps.list file even though it is a valid alias.  Perhaps if I had installed
an application which creates an entry for that alias in mimeapps.list, it would
be in there.  

There is also some further inconsistency because I can see that I have an entry
for the one alias for image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, and yet it appears to be ignored
and the correct default application from the image/jpeg entry is used.  It
seems clear to me that Plasma 5 currently has some issues with the proper
handling of MIME aliases, but it seems like an eminently fixable problem.

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

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--- Comment #3 from andydecle...@gmail.com ---
Created attachment 96512
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=96512=edit
All JPGs are forced to open with GIMP

I experience this specifically with jpg files, but not others that I've tested
(such as gif). Attached is video evidence of the jpg problem.

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[Rex Dieter via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[Sudhir Khanger via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

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--- Comment #2 from Sudhir Khanger  ---
*** Bug 357359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[dolphin] [Bug 356235] Dolphin unable to change file associations

[cygn via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356235

cygn  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from cygn  ---
This is due to a confusion where the mimeapps.list is stored. The old
deprecated path is  .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and the correct one
is .config/mimeapps.list or .config/kde-mimeapps.list 
kcm/dolphin still write the changes to .local hence they are ignored. My
current workaround is to manually copy  .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
to .config/kde-mimeapps.list until someone fixes the paths. 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications
http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html#file

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