| Summary: | gnome-base/gnome-session: Deprecation of /usr/share/applications/defaults.list and how to handle default applications across desktops | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Pacho Ramos <pacho> |
| Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926410 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926411 |
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 523688 | ||
+*gnome-session-3.14.0-r1 (18 Jan 2015) + + 18 Jan 2015; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +files/defaults.list-r3, + +files/gnome-session-3.14.0-validate-autostart.patch, + +gnome-session-3.14.0-r1.ebuild: + Patch from 3.14 branch to fix crash when autostart conditions are wrong, use + new location for defaults list (#534790), update that list to fit new names + for .desktop files in 3.14 cycle. + |
I just got this from distributors list, I open this bug to remember to update it for 3.14 cycle then :) -- Hello, Please note that around April 2014 the following freedesktop.org changes happened: 1. Session .desktop files should contain a list of desktops, e.g. DesktopNames=GNOME-Classic;GNOME 2. Display Managers are expected to set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP Using DesktopNames. Done by at least GDM 3.14, KDM, SDDM 3. Deprecation of "glib" /usr/share/applications/defaults.list 4. Introduction of /usr/share/applications/$desktop-mimeapps.list 5. KDE and GNOME 3.14+ will still ensure XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is set See startkde, gnome-session. Latter doesn't override if already set. Please perform the following in your distribution: A. If your distribution currently ships a defaults.list file, please rename it to e.g. gnome-mimeapps.list (lowercase!). B. Check that the non-GNOME,non-KDE session desktop files (Cinnamon and so) contain something such as: DesktopNames=Cinnamon;GNOME C. Verify that e.g. the gnome.desktop session file actually contains DesktopNames. This has done within GNOME, but at least one distribution uses a setup whereby these desktop files get overwritten/recreated without that key so best to check the key is there. D. If your distribution uses display managers other than GDM, KDM, SDDM verify that these set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP There's still a fallback within gnome-session and startkde, so this is for other desktops. For more details please see http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ distributor-list mailing list distributor-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/distributor-list