Hello, all. We're having some difficulty properly setting GNOME defaults using XDG_DATA_DIRS. In our specific case, we are trying to set the system default for all users to acroread from Evince because Evince is not properly rendering some of the more complicated documents. We set XDG_DATA_DIRS=/data/.Common/xdg/default:/usr/share:/usr/local/share::/opt/trinity/share/:/usr/share/ /data/.Common/xdg/default has an applications directory with a defaults.list file setting the default pdf application for application/pdf and application/vnd.adobe.pdf to AdobeReader.desktop which points to acroread. The problem seems to be that there is a /usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list which is a link to /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list which sets Evince as the default. This seems to be overriding our defaults. If I edit that file or rename it, the default is set properly. To override it, I tried creating a gnome directory under /data/.Common/xdg/default/ and moving the applications directory under that in case gnome is a preferred path for gnome applications to find their settings. That did not work. I tried putting the Common directory at the end of XDG_DATA_DIRS in case it is read in the opposite order from what I assumed; that did not work. So we see the cause but do not yet have the solution. How do we get our centralized settings to override those in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list so that we don't have to edit every single one of those files thus defeating the purpose of centralized administration? Thanks - John PS - I just realized that I should clarify this is a vserver environment with a shared file system via mount rbind. Thus, we can set one xdg directory for hundreds of vserver guests rather than editing /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list on each one of those guests. In a stand alone environment, the highest centralization would be /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list. Thanks - John _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
