On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 14:44:59 +0000 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said:
> On 04/11/2018 13:14, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > [...] > > it'll pick one of whatever app says it can open that mime type... > > whatever comes first that it finds, > > That was my understanding also. But it doesn't: > > * /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache says (simplified) > application/pdf=qpdfview.desktop;evince.desktop;gimp.desktop; > because *I* want them to open with qpdfview but evince disagreed > *and then* GIMP stuck its oar in and added itself that is normal. all tjhese apps say they can load a pdf, so they are on the list of candidates. one of the candidate list is chosen by e - whatever it finds first in its in-memory data structures, UNLESS you have explicitly set one via settings OR used efm to "open with" a specific one, then that is used. > * if I type the command xdg-open foobar.pdf it opens in evince > > * if I double-click on foobar.pdf in efm it opens in qpdfview > > * if the genealogical application Gramps generates a PDF report, > it opens GIMP to display it! i tested this myself just before i wrote my last mail and xdg-open followed what enlightenment_open does... perhaps your system's xdg-open is old and doesn't support enlightenment? try using enlightenment_open instead .... it should be consistent. the xdg tools are heavily hard-coded for specific desktop support. xdg-open is just a shell script, so have a read :) perhaps you need to upgrade OS/XDG tools? > Obviously E is doing it right and the others are wrong :-) > > > UNLESS you happen to change that. and it's as simple as opening that > > mime type via efm and using "open with" ... and selecting the > > appropriate app, then it'll use whatever you last happened to use > > there as that becomes your preferred opener of that type. > Part of the problem is that I hardly ever use GUI file managers, and if > I do it's usually caja. well then you get the settings dialog with the massive list of mime types to have fun with. :) > > you could beat your head against the massive default applications > > dialog and manually select there mime type by mime type... but just > > using efm is the simplest way... > > Yes, but fortunately it was only to mime types and both the bogus > associations were made by one application. I have added the relevant > commands to my setup script for installing new systems now, so I > shouldn't have any more trouble. it is possible the app is not using xdg-open and doing its own thing (enlightenment does its own thing ... well chicken-and-egg problem. xdg-open these days relies on enlightenment to do the opening and e will use ~/.config/mimeapps.list | ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list files (mimeapps first if found, otherwise fallback to defaults.list). e will write all config these days into the mimeapps.list file. some time ago (i don't know when) xdg decided to change from the defaults.list file to the mimeapps.list scheme. e will auto-upgrade you to the new scheme if you don't have a mimeapps.list file bu just copying defaults.list over to there. perhaps it's something related to some apps using the sold scheme and some the new, maybe xdg-open not supporting enlightenment ... perhaps a combination of the 2? > Thanks for your help. > > ///Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
