Hi Steve, > I'm not sure if this is a calibre or mime-support bug.
I am quite sure that it is a mime-support. > I don't know if this is just a matter of 'calibre-ebook-viewer' sorting > alphabetically before 'evince', or what; but having calibre installed in I have never understood how mime-support handles this. The defaults are somehow determined by the last package installed - my feeling. I have seen this with pdfs, html, most recently with .txt files that are now tried to be opened with wine+notepad (!!!). Without me touching anything in the configurations. I am tempted to through out all and everything of these mime-crap, or rewrite it from scratch. > I suppose this issue would possibly also be resolved if bug #802767 were > fixed. You mean separating out the ebook-viewer? How would this solve the problem? Probably (trying to read your mind) by renaming the calibre-ebook-viewer to ebook-viewer, but then it still sorts before evince ;-) Sorry, no idea. I have decided do define each and every handler necessary in ~/.config/mimeapps.list BTW, also this is a huge fun to find out where one should configure it. Mine has: [Default Applications] application/pdf=evince.desktop; image/*=eom.desktop; text/plain=pluma.desktop; image/jpeg=eom.desktop video/mp4=smplayer.desktop text/html=firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop inode/directory=nemo.desktop Because even such stupid things as opening a folder does the wrong thing. Simpy put, MIME support is completely broken in Debian. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
