Bug 303423 – x11-misc/shared-mime-info does not provide defaults.list

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Bignaux Ronan 2010-02-04 07:00:55 UTC]

Unlike other distribution, shared-mime-info on gentoo doesnt' provide a /usr/share/applications/defaults.list so xdg-mime could not work. I donno yet how to deal with that.

$ export XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=4
$ xdg-mime query default text/mathml
Checking /home/genesis/.local/share//applications/defaults.list
Checking /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
Checking /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
Checking /usr/share/gdm/applications/defaults.list

no one of this file are created. Provide a defaults.list or generated it at installation time will make xdg working.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289374 patch doesn't solve the problem since it's not the xdg-utils that should provide the file.But it can be considered as a related bug. I wonder what do the freedesktop team here think about that.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Bignaux Ronan 2010-02-04 19:19:41 UTC]

Created attachment 218429 [details]
the /usr/share/applications/defaults.list from shared-mime-info fedora rpm

add this solve the "bug"

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2010-02-09 08:48:47 UTC]

And how do you suggest we deal with different desktops ? shared-mime-info is a freedesktop project and should not assume a default that is specific to one desktop or another, it wouldn't be fair.

[Comment 3 Bignaux Ronan 2010-02-09 09:19:49 UTC]

Perharps we can rename this defaults.list to gnome-defaults.list and write a EWARN message to inform administrator to link/rename it to /usr/share/applications/defaults.list or in the right XDG place of its users. Ideas are welcome !

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-04-23 12:19:09 UTC]

no