Package: thunar Version: 1.6.3-1 Severity: normal Opening files in Thunar (under XFCE) shows inconsistent behaviour with respect to file associations. This happens since an upgrade of libglib2.0-0 to version 2.42.0-1 from 2.40.0-5, and is apparently related to the changes in GLib 2.41.x concerning the move of mimeapps configuration to ~/.config/mimeapps.list (as documented in /usr/share/doc/libglib2.0-0/changelog.gz, commit 6fd5a8cdaa0dee2217ebe7411adf3ddb37f1827e).
More specifically, it seems like the [Default Applications] section is shown and updated when file associations are set from Thunar, but the first application in [Added Associations] is actually opened by Thunar upon opening a file. Manually opening ~/.config/mimeapps.list in a text editor and editing the application order in the [Added Associations] section does the trick. Example: let an excerpt from ~/.config/mimeapps.list be [Default Applications] application/pdf=evince.desktop [Added Associations] application/pdf=evince.desktop;pdf.desktop;gv.desktop;display-im6.desktop;xpdf.desktop; Thunar opens PDF files with evince. If the association is changed within Thunar to xpdf, the file is modified to something along the lines of: [Default Applications] application/pdf=xpdf.desktop [Added Associations] application/pdf=evince.desktop;pdf.desktop;gv.desktop;display-im6.desktop;xpdf.desktop; but Thunar still opens PDF files with evince, because it is the first application in the [Added Associations] section. However, the file association shown within Thunar is xpdf. On the same setup (and still running XFCE), Nautilus apparently works fine, whereas PCManFM also shows odd behaviour. I interpret that Thunar and PCManFM may both need some patching to work consistently with the changes in glib2.0, but please let me know if this is a glib2.0 bug, and feel free to reassign. Otherwise, I shall further investigate the behaviour of PCManFM and file a bug against PCManFM as well, as time allows. Best regards, Pier Luigi Pau -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages thunar depends on: ii desktop-file-utils 0.22-1 ii exo-utils 0.10.2-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-11 ii libcairo2 1.12.16-5 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.6-2 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1 ii libexo-1-0 0.10.2-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.8-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.0-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.24-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 208-8 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libpango1.0-0 1.36.7-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1 ii libthunarx-2-0 1.6.3-1 ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.10.0-6 ii libxfce4util6 4.10.1-2 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.10.0-3 ii shared-mime-info 1.3-1 ii thunar-data 1.6.3-1 Versions of packages thunar recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.8.6-2 ii gvfs 1.20.3-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.1 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-2 ii thunar-volman 0.8.0-4 ii tumbler 0.1.30-1 ii xdg-user-dirs 0.15-2 ii xfce4-panel 4.10.1-1 Versions of packages thunar suggests: ii thunar-archive-plugin 0.3.1-3 ii thunar-media-tags-plugin 0.2.1-1 -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
