Am 07.09.18 um 09:07 schrieb Josh Triplett: > 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).
/etc/mailcap is very unflexible in that regard and I'm not sure it's fixable. Maybe a better solution would be if tools moved away from using /etc/mailcap. Could mutt be taught to use xdg-open? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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