From: brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org
To: 29472@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29472] [patch 0/4] Add perl-file-mimeinfo and dependencies; add it as an input to xdg-utils
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:50:53 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171127125053.C13FF4E0018@mta-1.openmailbox.og> (raw)
I was wondering why my pdf documents were getting opened in Gimp by default instead of Evince, so I investigated xdg-open and found it uses mimeopen as a fallback, and packaged it. Turns out it didn't make a difference and the issue was simply that the generated mimedata.cache in xdg-mime-database had Gimp listed before Evince.
I was also I little confused that xdg-mime-database produces so many conflicts with shared-mime-info. It's role appears to be to update the data in shared-mime-data and have it overshadow the original data when conflicts are resolved during profile generation. Looks ugly seeing all those conflicts though.
I had a look at Fedora's version. They just have a single shared-mime-data package that runs update-mime-database, but also they add a few changes to make Evince open pdf's instead of Gimp, among other changes.
This makes me feel that it's desirable for us to also tweak mimedata to make it more sensible -- Pdf's should open in a pdf reader before it opens in an image editor. It seems unrealistic to only tweak upstream projects to make all this mimedata mesh together perfectly to produce ideal default behaviour.
I rambled on a bit too much... Here are some patches that add perl-file-mimeinfo
next reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 12:50 brendan.tildesley [this message]
2017-11-27 12:54 ` [bug#29472] [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add perl-file-basedir Brendan Tildesley
2017-11-27 12:54 ` [bug#29472] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add perl-file-desktopentry Brendan Tildesley
2017-11-27 12:54 ` [bug#29472] [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add perl-file-mimeinfo Brendan Tildesley
2017-11-27 12:54 ` [bug#29472] [PATCH 4/4] gnu: xdg-utils: Add perl-file-mimeinfo as an input Brendan Tildesley
2017-11-28 9:44 ` bug#29472: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add perl-file-basedir Ludovic Courtès
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