On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a problem in which evince didn't look for the right MIME > database when I asked it to display a PDF file. Running > update-mime-database showed: > > netra ~ # update-mime-database /opt/csw/share/mime > > Note that '/opt/csw/share' is not in the search path > set by the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS > environment variables, so applications may not > be able to find it until you set them. The > directories currently searched are: > > > - /root/.local/share > - /usr/local/share/ > - /usr/share/
Where do those defaults come from? > > > After setting XDG_DATA_DIRS to /opt/csw/share, evince started showing > PDF documents. What is our way of handling it? Have the users > configure the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable for themselves? Embed this > setting in each application? Any other way? ideally, we find an underlying core related library that has the defaults compiled in, and patch it. >The base problem is that I don't know how exactly >this resolution is working in evince. GDB is your friend? :-} _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
