Public bug reported:
I have spent a very long time trying to use any kind of GUI tool to
configure a file association in Ubuntu Gnome, with no success.
I finally was forced to find old .desktop files from a previous desktop
backup which I'd manually authored before.
The requirement is simple - use a specific script in a known path to
open PDFs
However, there doesn't appear to be any usable mechanism for doing this,
principally because Nautilus (now?) filters the possible applications to
launch a specific file according to the Mime type, yet there is no way
to specify the Mime type association for a new application aside from
manually editing text files and forcing update of the desktop databases
directly. Alacarte should ideally anticipate this.
Given the simplicity of this requirement, and how commonly it's likely
to be needed, this is a major oversight for the function of Alacarte.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: alacarte 3.7.90-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 31 20:57:53 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alacarte
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 saucy
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1207079
Title:
alacarte: no user journey for associating filetype with new binary
script
Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I have spent a very long time trying to use any kind of GUI tool to
configure a file association in Ubuntu Gnome, with no success.
I finally was forced to find old .desktop files from a previous
desktop backup which I'd manually authored before.
The requirement is simple - use a specific script in a known path to
open PDFs
However, there doesn't appear to be any usable mechanism for doing
this, principally because Nautilus (now?) filters the possible
applications to launch a specific file according to the Mime type, yet
there is no way to specify the Mime type association for a new
application aside from manually editing text files and forcing update
of the desktop databases directly. Alacarte should ideally anticipate
this.
Given the simplicity of this requirement, and how commonly it's likely
to be needed, this is a major oversight for the function of Alacarte.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: alacarte 3.7.90-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 31 20:57:53 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alacarte
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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