On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:56:23 -0500 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 12:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > +1 I'm in favor, but ship it as mimeapps.list to comply with modern > > related standards, see: > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html#file > > The modern spec is what provides for desktop-specific defaults. > > > Proposal: ship a generic/default mimeapps.list initially based on > > content of gnome-mimeapps.list > > A generic mimeapps.list would apply to *all* desktops, which doesn't > make much sense as the expected defaults on e.g. KDE would differ > quite a bit from GNOME. Thats not how I read the spec. Wouldn't the specific desktop ones take effect if they have a entry for that mime type and only fall through to the generic one if they didn't list something? > IMO the steps to fix this are: > > 1) for *all* spec-compliant desktops (IOW all current GIO-based ones: > GNOME, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, XFCE) to ship their own desktop-specific > *-mimeapps.list. Sure. > 2a) fix KDE to conform to the spec, OR Where does KDE not conform? > 2b) store KDE's defaults in mimeapps.list, and make sure that the > others cover all the mimetypes provided thereby. > > 3) In mimeapps.list, add any Added/Removed Associations deemed > necessary. kevin
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