[Bug 1769420] Re: Odd lxqt-config-file-associations for .jpg and .pdf

[Scott Cowles Jacobs]

OK.

I have now re-purposed one of my previous distro-partitions, and
did a minimal install of Lubuntu Next, as I did before.

Upon booting into the new install, the odd file-associations are already
there.

Any file that is pure text (.txt .cpp .h ... ) defaults to LibreOffice Writer
instead of featherpad.

Any file that is an image (.jpg .png ... ) defaults to nomacs instead of 
LXImage.
(Admittedly, nomacs is an image-related app, but one more often wants to LOOK 
AT an image than EDIT it.)

.pdf files default to LibreOffice Draw, instead of qpdfview.

Audio/video files mostly default to SMPlayer, but .ogg comes up as
"Enqueue in SMPlayer"

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Where do file-type vs application ("mime-types"?) associations come
from?

Does Qt first default them, or is it LXQt?
Most of these applications are LXQt-related apps, so presumably if Qt defaulted
to one app, but LXQt used another, then LXQt would modify the associations to 
point at their apps.
Presumably, if Lubuntu [Next] wanted to use a different app, it would also 
modify the associations [re-]set by LXQt.

What system is in place - does Lubuntu [Next] do any of the setting, or
do they just pass on what comes from LXQt?

Obviously, I can "repair" any odd defaults, but new users will be
confused if they try to look at a .pdf file and a drawing program comes
up (especially when it displays "This PDF file is encrypted and can't be
opened."), or if a text file comes up in a word processor...

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