Bug 1329804

Interesting, that's a bug I thought was fixed awhile ago, is there a chance you have some older/different xdg-open installed somewhere?

$ rpm -q --whatprovides `which xdg-open`

Nope, nothing else.

However I was just reading elsewhere that "xdg-utils does not work correctly with enlightenment", which I use.  

Indeed I seem to have similar issues with xdg-email ("no method available for opening 'mailto:'").

It should work fine in enlightenment.  Mind sharing where you read that?  (so that I can correct where "the internet is wrong"? :) 

So, what xdg-open tries on enlightenment, is first tries:
enlightenment_open "file"
then
falls back to some generic methods.

Does,
enlightenment_open somefile.pdf
work?


As far as mailto: goes, that should work too, provided this points to something useful:

xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" 

(with a hard-coded fallback to thunderbird, if it's installed).

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #3)
> It should work fine in enlightenment.  Mind sharing where you read that? 
> (so that I can correct where "the internet is wrong"? :) 

Maybe it's outdated, then :
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Enlightenment


> So, what xdg-open tries on enlightenment, is first tries:
> enlightenment_open "file"
> then
> falls back to some generic methods.
> 
> Does,
> enlightenment_open somefile.pdf
> work?

Here we are…

$ enlightenment_open somefile.pdf 
Filename "file:///tmp/somefile.pdf" does not exist or is not a regular file


> As far as mailto: goes, that should work too, provided this points to
> something useful:
> 
> xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" 
> 
> (with a hard-coded fallback to thunderbird, if it's installed).

$ xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" 
evolution.desktop

And evolution is not installed.

I guess xdg-utils is not to be blamed here, so I'm closing.

Thanks for the help anyway !

I suspect enlightenment's enlightment_open may be an old xdg-open fork (since, that error sounded very familiar, something we'd fixed in xdg-open awhile back).


Triaging to enlightenment, owner of /usr/bin/enlightenment_open

Opened a ticket with upstream Enlightenment: https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3555

This bug isn't in Enlightenment, it's in evince-previewer. The full story is here:
http://entrenchant.blogspot.com/2016/03/xdg-open-arcanery.html

I'm moving this bug to evince, and I've opened it upstream as well:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766531

Some good detective-work in the blog, and some not so good commentary.

<offtopic mode=sarcasm>
"There are some very confused people working on this software." is a great way to motivate people to fix bugs for you.
</offtopic>

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #8)
> Some good detective-work in the blog, and some not so good commentary.
> 
> <offtopic mode=sarcasm>
> "There are some very confused people working on this software." is a great
> way to motivate people to fix bugs for you.
> </offtopic>

Some people submit patches, some others prefer to boast on the web…

Anyway, the post suggests some improvements in the way xdg-open handles this issue.

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

upstream evince merged a fix for this which is by now in f25, I'll backport that to f24

evince-3.20.1-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d4bb9e240b

evince-3.20.1-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.