improve default mime handlers in F14 template

[marmarek]

Reported by rafal on 24 Mar 2011 17:12 UTC
They are even worse than in f13. Particularly annoying is the fact that pdf files are opened in DispVM by gimp,

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/130

[marmarek]

Comment by rafal on 30 Mar 2011 12:53 UTC
mimeopen retrieves the information about associations from mime cache; and this cache can be rebuilt upon any package update, so changing it is not good.
mimeopen ignores /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. It honours /home/user/.local/share/applications/defaults.list. We can create it via "xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf" in core-appvm %post, but again, the existing AppVMs will not notice. Should we do it this way ?
"xdg-mime default" has no "--mode system" switch, it always creates /home/user/.local/share/applications/defaults.list.

[marmarek]

Comment by rafal on 30 Mar 2011 12:53 UTC
mimeopen retrieves the information about associations from mime cache; and this cache can be rebuilt upon any package update, so changing it is not good.
mimeopen ignores /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. It honours /home/user/.local/share/applications/defaults.list. We can create it via "xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf" in core-appvm %post, but again, the existing AppVMs will not notice. Should we do it this way ?
"xdg-mime default" has no "--mode system" switch, it always creates /home/user/.local/share/applications/defaults.list.

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 30 Mar 2011 13:11 UTC
I think we should just postpone it until Beta 2. For now, we will just not install GIMP in the template :)

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 30 Mar 2011 13:11 UTC
I think we should just postpone it until Beta 2. For now, we will just not install GIMP in the template :)

[marmarek]

Modified by joanna on 11 Apr 2011 12:10 UTC

[marmarek]

Modified by joanna on 11 Apr 2011 12:10 UTC

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 19 Apr 2011 20:56 UTC
--mode system can be achieved by XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/share

And why not use xdg-open in DispVM, which doesn't have this problem (ignoring system defaults.list)?

So what defaults (besides pdf) should be changed?

BTW I've just installed gimp and it doesn't replace my default handler for pdf (which is "evince" of course). So package installation order matters? Strange...

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 19 Apr 2011 20:56 UTC
--mode system can be achieved by XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/share

And why not use xdg-open in DispVM, which doesn't have this problem (ignoring system defaults.list)?

So what defaults (besides pdf) should be changed?

BTW I've just installed gimp and it doesn't replace my default handler for pdf (which is "evince" of course). So package installation order matters? Strange...

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 20 Apr 2011 17:47 UTC

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Modified by marmarek on 20 Apr 2011 17:47 UTC

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 28 May 2011 09:16 UTC
The mime handlers seem to work fine. Doing this ticker right, would involve significant UI work, which we currently don't want to engage in (e.g. before we settle on the actual WM in Dom0).

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 28 May 2011 09:16 UTC
The mime handlers seem to work fine. Doing this ticker right, would involve significant UI work, which we currently don't want to engage in (e.g. before we settle on the actual WM in Dom0).