[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551171] Re: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1304650 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304650 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551171 Title: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox Status in Mozilla Firefox: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727422 With Firefox, default applications are selected by Firefox using /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, however, this list is a system generated list in random order and therefor does not reflect the user's preferences of which application should be used to open a file. When I click on a pdf (for example), I want to have the option to open it in my default application, in my case in okular, and not in something else. However, acroread is invariably presented is presented as default choice because it happens to be the first entry in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache for application/pdf. This happens in spite of the fact that the desktop provides correct defaults.list and mimeapps.list files The comments in the firefox bug seem to suggest that firefox developers are convinced that firefox calls the correct gtk libraries to determine the correct application. If this is the case, then it is necessarily the ubuntu (or possibly kubuntu) infrastructure to be failing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: firefox 44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-30.36-generic 4.2.8-ckt3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 BuildID: 20160209234513 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Feb 29 11:37:25 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-12 (808 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-23 (129 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1551171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551171] Re: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox
** Changed in: firefox Importance: Medium => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551171 Title: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox Status in Mozilla Firefox: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727422 With Firefox, default applications are selected by Firefox using /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, however, this list is a system generated list in random order and therefor does not reflect the user's preferences of which application should be used to open a file. When I click on a pdf (for example), I want to have the option to open it in my default application, in my case in okular, and not in something else. However, acroread is invariably presented is presented as default choice because it happens to be the first entry in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache for application/pdf. This happens in spite of the fact that the desktop provides correct defaults.list and mimeapps.list files The comments in the firefox bug seem to suggest that firefox developers are convinced that firefox calls the correct gtk libraries to determine the correct application. If this is the case, then it is necessarily the ubuntu (or possibly kubuntu) infrastructure to be failing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: firefox 44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-30.36-generic 4.2.8-ckt3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 BuildID: 20160209234513 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Feb 29 11:37:25 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-12 (808 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-23 (129 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1551171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551171] Re: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox
Launchpad has imported 34 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727422. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2012-02-15T14:17:20+00:00 dutchkind wrote: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1 Build ID: 2012020800 Steps to reproduce: With Firefox 10, and possibly before, default applications are selected by Firefox using /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, however, this list is a system generated list in random order and therefor does not reflect the user's preferences of which application should be used to open a file. Actual results: When I click on a pdf (for example), I want to have the option to open it in my default application, in my case in okular, and not in gimp. However, gimp is presented as the only choice because it happens to be the first in the row in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. Selecting an other application is not very user friendly. Expected results: Instead of using the system wide cache Firefox should use $HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list or $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to honor the user's preferences, and if nothing is found there, then /usr/share/applications/defaults.list should be used instead of /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1551171/comments/0 On 2012-02-15T20:51:55+00:00 Bugzilla-tf wrote: *** Bug 727425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1551171/comments/1 On 2012-02-15T20:55:01+00:00 Bugzilla-tf wrote: *** Bug 568218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1551171/comments/2 On 2012-02-15T21:53:50+00:00 Bzbarsky wrote: We don't do anything with mimeinfo.cache directly. We just call into gnome-vfs using gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_application Is that function doing the wrong thing on your machine for some reason? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1551171/comments/3 On 2012-02-16T07:55:53+00:00 dutchkind wrote: I don't know, I don't use gnome, but some gnome libs are installed (Opensuse). But I use apparmor and when I blocked access to /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache in the hope some other way was used, there was not even a default app shown, so I am quite sure it is used by firefox somehow. Besides, before upgrading from 9 to 10 I didn't have a problem with this behavior, it worked ok, although in thunderbird, which is of the same version all the time, it started in 8 or so that I suddenly had chromium as the only option to open url's which at the time I didn't trace back to this problem. As for finding the default app, wouldn't that be xdg-mime query default ? And if there is a need to use mimeinfo.cache, why not have all apps listed there in the dropdown list so the user can easily select? Now a user has to know which executable he needs to open something, not always easy. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1551171/comments/4 On 2012-02-16T09:24:45+00:00 ghomem wrote: I agree with Dutch Kind that this should be handled on a desktop agnostic manner like xdg-mime. I have to add that we had this problem since at least Firefox 3.6.x on KDE. Possible solutions in order of preference: 1. make this work in a desktop agnostic manner (via xdg) 2. use the GNOME application order in the correct way (not via the cache file) This first solution seems better because it would be up to the distribution to ensure that xdg* works well, whereas the second one may reflect the good or bad behaviour of GNOME. Usage examples for xdg-mime query: [gustavo@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf AdobeReader.desktop [gustavo@localhost ~]$ xdg-mime query default image/jpg gwenview.desktop [gustavo@localhost ~] Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1551171/comments/5 On 2012-02-16T15:01:46+00:00 Bzbarsky wrote: > As for finding the default app, wouldn't that be xdg-mime query default xdg-mime postdates the creation of this code. Bug 296443 covers using it. Again, we're not actually using mimeinfo.cache ourselves. It's your
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551171] Re: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #727422 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727422 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727422 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551171 Title: /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications in Firefox Status in Mozilla Firefox: Unknown Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727422 With Firefox, default applications are selected by Firefox using /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, however, this list is a system generated list in random order and therefor does not reflect the user's preferences of which application should be used to open a file. When I click on a pdf (for example), I want to have the option to open it in my default application, in my case in okular, and not in something else. However, acroread is invariably presented is presented as default choice because it happens to be the first entry in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache for application/pdf. This happens in spite of the fact that the desktop provides correct defaults.list and mimeapps.list files The comments in the firefox bug seem to suggest that firefox developers are convinced that firefox calls the correct gtk libraries to determine the correct application. If this is the case, then it is necessarily the ubuntu (or possibly kubuntu) infrastructure to be failing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: firefox 44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-30.36-generic 4.2.8-ckt3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 BuildID: 20160209234513 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Feb 29 11:37:25 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-12 (808 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-23 (129 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1551171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
