it works now. "okular.desktop" is called "kde4/okular.desktop" in nixos. So the files and locations were right, but nothing happened because this desktop entry wasn't found in any of the dirs.
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, October 04, 2013 03:39:34 PM Mathijs Kwik wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm running a custom i3 desktop setup with some kde base apps. > >> When I click a pdf file in dolpin, kde correctly launches okular to > >> view the file. > >> However, using xdg-open to open the file leads to my web browser > >> (conkeror) trying to download the file. > >> > >> I googled a bit on xdg-open and it seems I need to add some > >> configuration files to ~/.local/share to configure default > >> applications per mimetype. > >> However this did not work. Looking at my environment, it seems XDG_* > >> variables only point to system-wide or nix-controlled locations. > >> > >> Is this by design? How should I configure this correctly? > >> PS: I'm using the new zsh stuff, which might be related. > > > > from http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > : > > > > "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific > configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set > or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used. " > > > > "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to > search for configuration files in addition to the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME base > directory. The directories in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS should be seperated with a > colon ':'. " > > > > and the same for XDG_DATA* > > > > Thus nixos setup seems to be just fine and xdg is actually used by many > packages such as kde. > > > >> Have a nice weekend, > >> Mathijs > >> _______________________________________________ > >> nix-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
