> I have tried to set the association with Nautilus now and now Chromium uses
> VLC. Looking into the ~/.local/share/applications
> /mimeapps.list I see the difference now. The "audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop"
> has to go into the "[Default Applications]" section
> and not into "[Added Associations]".
Ok, so that part was an incorrect configuration and not a bug
> It is not very intuitive that you have to set the file association to be used
> to open a file by Chromium in Nautilus. Perhaps
> Chromium should have some file association setting menu where one can select
> a file type and then Nautilus' properties dialog
> for this file gets opened.
The associations is not specific to chromium, the same handle is used
when e.g clicking on the file in nautilus. I'm reassigning the bug to
unity-control-center as a wishlist. The "details" settings provide
control of the associated applications for music/photo/video, but could
perhaps provide more detailed controls as well
> Anothjer observation is that if I click a TV station icon in Chromium now,
> the file is downloaded and listed as a downloaded file at
> the bottom of the Chromium window. Then I have to click it there to open. Is
> there a way to make it open directly?
I don't know about that one, you can try asking Chad or opening a new
bug against chromium to request that
** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) => (unassigned)
** Package changed: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu) => unity-control-center
(Ubuntu)
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low => Wishlist
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- Personal configuration for mime type handling not respected, configuration
way to complicated and unintuitive
+ There is no easy way to associate an handler to a specific type
** Summary changed:
- There is no easy way to associate an handler to a specific type
+ There is no easy way to associate a program to a specific mimetype (out of
using nautilus)
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