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> -- no debconf information
