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has caused the Debian Bug report #921945,
regarding sylpheed: Sylpheed uses the wrong application for opening pdf files
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: sylpheed
Version: 3.7.0-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Sylpheed does not take into account the XDG default application the desktop
environment should use for opening files of a specific MIME/Filetype.
Example:
. when I tried to open a PDF file, Sylpheed uses gimp to open the file.
Gimp is the first application in the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
entry defining which application(s) can read/open/associate with pdf files.
$ grep application/pdf /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
application/pdf=gimp.desktop;inkscape.desktop;org.gnome.Evince.desktop;libreoffice-draw.desktop;
It should use my desktop's default application from Debian Gnome default spec
in /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list to open PDF files.
$ grep -i pdf /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list
application/pdf=org.gnome.Evince.desktop
This association can be found using the xdg-mime command:
$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
org.gnome.Evince.desktop
And a file can be opened the right way using the xdg-open command.
Regards,
Jean-Marc
See also:
- Association between MIME types and applications
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.1.html
- XDG Base Directory Specification
https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.8.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages sylpheed depends on:
ii libassuan0 2.5.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-5
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-2
ii libcompfaceg1 1:1.5.2-5+b2
ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-11.1+b1
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.2-4
ii libgpg-error0 1.33-3
ii libgpgme11 1.12.0-6
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1.2
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.47+dfsg-3
ii libonig5 6.9.1-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1a-1
ii pinentry-gtk2 1.1.0-1+b1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.12
Versions of packages sylpheed recommends:
ii aspell-fr [aspell-dictionary] 0.50-3-8
ii bogofilter 1.2.4+dfsg1-13
ii ca-certificates 20190110
ii sylpheed-i18n 3.7.0-4
Versions of packages sylpheed suggests:
pn claws-mail-tools <none>
ii curl 7.63.0-1
pn sylpheed-doc <none>
pn sylpheed-plugins <none>
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--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.8.0~beta1-3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package sylpheed has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1129594
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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