Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

> Thank you for the bug reports!
>
> The Guix xdg-utils package is in need of an update. The latest release
> is 1.1.1. Unlike the 1.0.2 release currently in Guix, the new release
> has test cases, many of which currently fail in Guix. While trying to
> get the tests to pass, I noticed that /usr/bin/file is hardcoded into
> xdg-mime. That, I think, is at least part of the problem. I am working
> on this, and will hopefully be done this weekend. We will revisit these
> bugs after that.

Heh, I've had a WIP update for 1.1.1 for some time and decided to finish
it based on this discussion. This tries "gvfs-open" before "gnome-open".

@Ben (and others), can you try this patch and see if that works for you?