this is general in Mate. Same on debian (stretch) matedesktop.
xdg-mime query default application/x-desktop
userapp-pluma-JPST30.desktop
this desktop file appears under $HOME/.local/share/applications/
cat .local/share/applications/userapp-pluma-JPST30.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
V
** Changed in: mate-desktop
Status: Unknown => New
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Title:
It is hard to set Pluma as default application to open desktop-files
To manage
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: caja (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
It is
The weird thing is, after doing this, there is an additional "pluma" in
the Properties/Open With list. It appears that for some reason "Pluma"
is forbidden from being the default application to open these files
with, but you can get it to work with "pluma".
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