https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442413
Bug ID: 442413 Summary: KDE doesn't respect the ~/.config/mimeapps.list defaults Product: plasmashell Version: 5.21.5 Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk Reporter: 61kyl...@anonaddy.me CC: plasma-b...@kde.org Target Milestone: 1.0 SUMMARY In Firefox, when opening the files from the downloads menu, the file always open in the wrong application (PNG images in Chromium or in ImageMagick, PDFs in GIMP etc). This happens even with the file associations being correct in System Settings > Applications > File associations. A Reddit user mentioned the following: >The root of the problem is: KDE does not initialize the XDG file associations >file ~/.config/mimeapps.list with its defaults. Instead KDE relies on its own >launch executable. Since Thunderbird / GTK apps parse that file to get >defaults it shows a random app that supports opening PDF files. >A quick workaround to solve this is forcing KDE to generate the entry for PDF >files. You can do that by changing file association order to something >different than the default applying it and then turning the ordering back to >Okular-first in System Settings -> File Associations. >It is an oddity left from KDE4 days. It allows people to try out KDE without >ruining GTK based desktop file associations but causes problems like this when >GTK apps are used under KDE desktop. >(https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/pnnlga/kde_system_handler_does_not_offer_okular_as_an/hcri0t2/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) After doing the workaround mentioned above, the files are opening (through the downloads menu of Firefox) in the correct applications. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Firefox; 2. Download a PNG, PDF or JPG file; 3. Click in the downloads menu and open the file. OBSERVED RESULT The wrong app will open. EXPECTED RESULT The files opening in the right programs. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 21.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.11.0-34-generic OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This happens in Ubuntu and in Neon. For reasons that are unknown to me, this doesn't happen in Fedora. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.