control: forwarded -1 https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/312 control: severity -1 wishlist
Hi Jean-Marc, On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 01:57:28PM +0100, Jean-Marc wrote: > 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. AFAIK Sylpheed is not a GNOME application, is just a GTK+2 application. Anyway I'm forwarding this upstream, just in case they may consider worth to implement it for a better user experience. thanks for reporting, -- Ricardo Mones ~ Never send a human to do a machine's job. Agent Smith
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