Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

2021-05-03 Thread Eli Schwartz
n biting the bullet and *asking* them. So, unsurprisingly, it has shortcomings and different scopes which render these definitions confusing... all of which could be solved by not asking the application vendor, but asking the user instead. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted Use

Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

2021-05-03 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/3/21 5:58 AM, David Faure wrote: > On jeudi 18 février 2021 03:17:45 CEST Eli Schwartz wrote: >> On 2/17/21 5:52 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: >>> The order for mime-types with no defaults has nothing to do with a >>> "shared database", it's implemen

Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

2021-02-17 Thread Eli Schwartz
preference. I guess the spec doesn't actually forbid an implementation from doing that, but I don't know of any that do. They probably assume Ubuntu will solve the problem by hardcoding an ISV override. I would prefer it if the spec required, or at least strongly urged the implem

Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

2021-02-17 Thread Eli Schwartz
he file managers using either of those are likely to > behave differently. Qt's native support for opening files in accordance with XDG is to invoke /usr/bin/xdg-open. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature Description:

Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

2021-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz
rkaround in the first place? mimeinfo.cache is not ordered by filename. Your "workaround" should be precisely as effective as standing on one foot and singing The Hedgehog Song. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature D

Re: New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

2021-02-21 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 2/21/21 11:10 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 2/21/21 10:56 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> we had exactly that in Gentoo where Gimp was taking over PDF files by >> default, just because it can import PDF and hence announced that mime >> type as supported. >> &

Re: XDG_CONFIG_DIRS an /usr/local/etc/xdg

2021-09-20 Thread Eli Schwartz
uot; -- Henry Spencer > A lot of thought went into it, so one should not go fixing stuff that > was never broken. http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html Did you say something about the sacred Unix? Who is reinventing what now? -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: XDG_CONFIG_DIRS an /usr/local/etc/xdg

2021-09-20 Thread Eli Schwartz
g list etiquette "with intent to make smartphones do worse rendering of the messages" is the point at which you believe it is necessary to summon the code of conduct committee in order to report passive-aggressive condescension. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature