> I have tried to set the association with Nautilus now and now Chromium uses
> VLC. Looking into the ~/.local/share/applications
> /mimeapps.list I see the difference now. The "audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop"
> has to go into the "[Default Applications]" section
> and not into "[Added Associations]".
Ok, so that part was an incorrect configuration and not a bug
> It is not very intuitive that you have to set the file association to be used
> to open a file by Chromium in Nautilus. Perhaps
> Chromium should have some file association setting menu where one can select
> a file type and then Nautilus' properties dialog
> for this file gets opened.
The associations is not specific to chromium, the same handle is used
when e.g clicking on the file in nautilus. I'm reassigning the bug to
unity-control-center as a wishlist. The "details" settings provide
control of the associated applications for music/photo/video, but could
perhaps provide more detailed controls as well
> Anothjer observation is that if I click a TV station icon in Chromium now,
> the file is downloaded and listed as a downloaded file at
> the bottom of the Chromium window. Then I have to click it there to open. Is
> there a way to make it open directly?
I don't know about that one, you can try asking Chad or opening a new
bug against chromium to request that
** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) => (unassigned)
** Package changed: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu) => unity-control-center
(Ubuntu)
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low => Wishlist
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- Personal configuration for mime type handling not respected, configuration
way to complicated and unintuitive
+ There is no easy way to associate an handler to a specific type
** Summary changed:
- There is no easy way to associate an handler to a specific type
+ There is no easy way to associate a program to a specific mimetype (out of
using nautilus)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311322
Title:
There is no easy way to associate a program to a specific mimetype
(out of using nautilus)
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
There is a web page with several links to .m3u files:
http://download.avm.de/tv/tv1.html
(each TV station logo is such a link). .m3u files are play lists, mime
types "audio/x-mpegurl" and "audio/mpegurl", and in contrary to what
the mime type names suggest they are not only audio but also video
play lists. In this example they point to IPTV video streams (the
streams actually only work in the LANs of customers of an IPTV plan of
the Deutsche Telekom in Germany, but the problem can be reproduced
also without such a plan). By default Ubuntu calls Rhythmbox when
clicking on an .m3u file in a Browser, and as Rhythmbox is a pure
audio player it is not able to play video.
So I have modified my personal configuration (Another bug: I had to
edit a hidden config file which I got only knowledge of by discussing
my problem on IRC). The file I edited is
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. I added the following two
lines to its end:
audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop
audio/mpegurl=vlc.desktop
After that I got the .m3u files opened with vlc on Firefox, but
Chromium still insisted on Rhythmbox. I checked a downloaded .m3u file
(attached) by command line:
till@till:~/fritzbox$ gvfs-info ~/telekom/TelekomTV-HD.m3u
display name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
edit name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
type: regular
size: 2372
uri: file:///home/till/telekom/TelekomTV-HD.m3u
attributes:
standard::type: 1
standard::name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
standard::display-name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
standard::edit-name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
standard::copy-name: TelekomTV-HD.m3u
standard::icon: audio-x-mpegurl, audio-x-generic
standard::content-type: audio/x-mpegurl
standard::fast-content-type: audio/x-mpegurl
standard::size: 2372
standard::allocated-size: 4096
standard::symbolic-icon: audio-x-mpegurl-symbolic,
audio-x-generic-symbolic, audio-x-mpegurl, audio-x-generic
etag::value: 1387007762:878003
id::file: l2049:7346217
id::filesystem: l2049
access::can-read: TRUE
access::can-write: TRUE
access::can-execute: FALSE
access::can-delete: TRUE
access::can-trash: TRUE
access::can-rename: TRUE
time::modified: 1387007762
time::modified-usec: 878003
time::access: 1398192227
time::access-usec: 472519
time::changed: 1387007762
time::changed-usec: 878003
unix::device: 2049
unix::inode: 7346217
unix::mode: 33204
unix::nlink: 1
unix::uid: 1000
unix::gid: 1000
unix::rdev: 0
unix::block-size: 4096
unix::blocks: 8
owner::user: till
owner::user-real: Till Kamppeter
owner::group: till
till@till:~/fritzbox$ gvfs-info ~/telekom/TelekomTV-HD.m3u | grep -i handler
I checked the configuration for the mime type:
till@till:~/fritzbox$ gvfs-mime --query audio/x-mpegurl
Default application for 'audio/x-mpegurl': rhythmbox.desktop
Registered applications:
rhythmbox.desktop
vlc.desktop
telekom-tv.desktop
totem.desktop
brasero.desktop
gedit.desktop
GoogleDocsdocsgooglecom.desktop
wine-extension-txt.desktop
kde4-okularApplication_txt.desktop
emacs24.desktop
libreoffice-writer.desktop
Recommended applications:
vlc.desktop
rhythmbox.desktop
telekom-tv.desktop
totem.desktop
brasero.desktop
till@till:~/fritzbox$ grep x-mpegurl ~/.local/share/applications/*
/home/till/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop
/home/till/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list~:audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop
/home/till/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:audio/x-mpegurl=telekom-tv.desktop;
/home/till/.local/share/applications/telekom-tv.desktop:MimeType=video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flv;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mp2t;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;video/x-ogm+ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-matroska;video/x-matroska;video/webm;audio/webm;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-shockwave-flash;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;application/x-extension-mp4;audio/mp4;audio/amr;audio/amr-wb;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player;application/xspf+xml;x-scheme-handler/mms;x-scheme-handler/rtmp;x-scheme-handler/rtsp;
/home/till/.local/share/applications/telekom-tv.desktop~:MimeType=video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flv;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mp2t;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;video/x-ogm+ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-matroska;video/x-matroska;video/webm;audio/webm;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-shockwave-flash;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;application/x-extension-mp4;audio/mp4;audio/amr;audio/amr-wb;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player;application/xspf+xml;x-scheme-handler/mms;x-scheme-handler/rtmp;x-scheme-handler/rtsp;
till@till:~/fritzbox$ grep audio/x-mpegurl /usr/share/applications
grep: /usr/share/applications: Is a directory
till@till:~/fritzbox$ grep audio/x-mpegurl /usr/share/applications/*
/usr/share/applications/brasero.desktop:MimeType=application/x-cd-image;application/x-cdrdao-toc;application/x-cue;application/x-toc;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-mp3-playlist;audio/x-mpegurl;application/x-brasero;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/image-picturecd;
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list:audio/x-mpegurl=rhythmbox.desktop
grep: /usr/share/applications/kde4: Is a directory
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop;rhythmbox.desktop;totem.desktop;brasero.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop:MimeType=application/x-ogg;application/ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-flac;audio/mp4;x-scheme-handler/itms;x-scheme-handler/itmss;
/usr/share/applications/totem.desktop:MimeType=application/mxf;application/ogg;application/ram;application/sdp;application/smil;application/smil+xml;application/vnd.apple.mpegurl;application/vnd.ms-wpl;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-extension-m4a;application/x-extension-mp4;application/x-flac;application/x-flash-video;application/x-matroska;application/x-netshow-channel;application/x-ogg;application/x-quicktime-media-link;application/x-quicktimeplayer;application/x-shorten;application/x-smil;application/xspf+xml;audio/3gpp;audio/ac3;audio/AMR;audio/AMR-WB;audio/basic;audio/flac;audio/midi;audio/mp2;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/mpegurl;audio/ogg;audio/prs.sid;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-aiff;audio/x-ape;audio/x-flac;audio/x-gsm;audio/x-it;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-matroska;audio/x-mod;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;audio/x-realaudio;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-s3m;audio/x-sbc;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-speex;audio/x-stm;audio/x-tta;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;audio/x-vorbis;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-xm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;image/x-pict;misc/ultravox;text/google-video-pointer;text/x-google-video-pointer;video/3gp;video/3gpp;video/dv;video/divx;video/fli;video/flv;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mpeg;video/msvideo;video/ogg;video/quicktime;video/vivo;video/vnd.divx;video/vnd.mpegurl;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/vnd.vivo;video/webm;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-m4v;video/x-matroska;video/x-mpeg;video/x-mpeg2;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-asx;video/x-msvideo;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-ms-wmx;video/x-ms-wvx;video/x-nsv;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/x-theora+ogg;video/x-totem-stream;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-scheme-handler/pnm;x-scheme-handler/mms;x-scheme-handler/net;x-scheme-handler/rtp;x-scheme-handler/rtmp;x-scheme-handler/rtsp;x-scheme-handler/mmsh;x-scheme-handler/uvox;x-scheme-handler/icy;x-scheme-handler/icyx;
/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop:MimeType=video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flv;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mp2t;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;video/x-ogm+ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-matroska;video/x-matroska;video/webm;audio/webm;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-shockwave-flash;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;application/x-extension-mp4;audio/mp4;audio/amr;audio/amr-wb;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player;application/xspf+xml;x-scheme-handler/mms;x-scheme-handler/rtmp;x-scheme-handler/rtsp;
till@till:~/fritzbox$ grep audio/x-mpegurl /usr/share/applications/*
/usr/share/applications/brasero.desktop:MimeType=application/x-cd-image;application/x-cdrdao-toc;application/x-cue;application/x-toc;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-mp3-playlist;audio/x-mpegurl;application/x-brasero;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/image-picturecd;
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list:audio/x-mpegurl=rhythmbox.desktop
grep: /usr/share/applications/kde4: Is a directory
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop;rhythmbox.desktop;totem.desktop;brasero.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop:MimeType=application/x-ogg;application/ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-flac;audio/mp4;x-scheme-handler/itms;x-scheme-handler/itmss;
/usr/share/applications/totem.desktop:MimeType=application/mxf;application/ogg;application/ram;application/sdp;application/smil;application/smil+xml;application/vnd.apple.mpegurl;application/vnd.ms-wpl;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-extension-m4a;application/x-extension-mp4;application/x-flac;application/x-flash-video;application/x-matroska;application/x-netshow-channel;application/x-ogg;application/x-quicktime-media-link;application/x-quicktimeplayer;application/x-shorten;application/x-smil;application/xspf+xml;audio/3gpp;audio/ac3;audio/AMR;audio/AMR-WB;audio/basic;audio/flac;audio/midi;audio/mp2;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/mpegurl;audio/ogg;audio/prs.sid;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-aiff;audio/x-ape;audio/x-flac;audio/x-gsm;audio/x-it;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-matroska;audio/x-mod;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;audio/x-realaudio;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-s3m;audio/x-sbc;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-speex;audio/x-stm;audio/x-tta;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;audio/x-vorbis;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-xm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;image/x-pict;misc/ultravox;text/google-video-pointer;text/x-google-video-pointer;video/3gp;video/3gpp;video/dv;video/divx;video/fli;video/flv;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mpeg;video/msvideo;video/ogg;video/quicktime;video/vivo;video/vnd.divx;video/vnd.mpegurl;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/vnd.vivo;video/webm;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-m4v;video/x-matroska;video/x-mpeg;video/x-mpeg2;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-asx;video/x-msvideo;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-ms-wmx;video/x-ms-wvx;video/x-nsv;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/x-theora+ogg;video/x-totem-stream;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-scheme-handler/pnm;x-scheme-handler/mms;x-scheme-handler/net;x-scheme-handler/rtp;x-scheme-handler/rtmp;x-scheme-handler/rtsp;x-scheme-handler/mmsh;x-scheme-handler/uvox;x-scheme-handler/icy;x-scheme-handler/icyx;
/usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop:MimeType=video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;video/x-flv;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;video/mp2t;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;video/x-ogm+ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-matroska;video/x-matroska;video/webm;audio/webm;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-shockwave-flash;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;application/x-extension-mp4;audio/mp4;audio/amr;audio/amr-wb;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player;application/xspf+xml;x-scheme-handler/mms;x-scheme-handler/rtmp;x-scheme-handler/rtsp;
till@till:~/fritzbox$
The command line
xdg-open ~/telekom/TelekomTV-HD.m3u
opens the file with Rhythmbox.
It seems that the system's configuration has priority against the user
configuration.
In addition, there must be an easy (GUI) way to configure which files
are opened by which applications.
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