On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 06:22:06AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.09.18 um 05:49 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > Package: evince > > Version: 3.30.0-1 > > Severity: important > > > > evince 3.30 renamed the desktop file from evince.desktop to > > org.gnome.Evince.desktop. update-mime, the tool to generate > > /etc/mailcap, processes desktop files in order by name. Because of this > > rename, GIMP now has a higher priority for PDF and PostScript files than > > Evince does, causing mutt and similar to open PDF and PostScript files > > with GIMP by default. > > What would you suggest should be done about this? > Renaming the desktop file back to evince.desktop is not really an option.
I'm not proposing that (though I'm curious what makes that particularly painful). We need *some* solution though. That this happened to work out of the box before was effectively a coincidence based on "evince" sorting before "gimp". I don't know what the *ideal* solution looks like. One short-term approach would be to introduce some kind of simplistic priority scheme in desktop files via an X- header that update-mime reads, and have evince and/or GIMP use that (and perhaps declare a Breaks for older mime-support). Effectively, this would introduce a concept of "this application supports this MIME type but should never end up as the primary tool a user wants to use to open it", versus "it's plausible that this could be the primary tool a user uses to open this MIME type". That would solve the problem of ending up with something like GIMP as the primary PDF opener, though it doesn't solve the long-term issue of ending up with the wrong tool for your preferred environment (e.g. evince vs okular).
