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Description of problem: In generic environment, where an application supporting image/png mimetype was installed, xdg-open 'http://a.org/a.png' starts the application instead of web browser. Not sure if this should be handled in xdg-open or mimeopen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xdg-utils-1.0.2-4.fc9 perl-File-MimeInfo-0.15-2.fc9 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install perl-File-MimeInfo 2. xdg-open 'http://a.org/a.png' Actual results: gqview started (or another application supporting image/png mimetype). Expected results: web browser started.
I submitted something on freedesktop to handle that by adding a protocol entry in the desktop file to precise which protocols are supported by an application. This would allow to use the mime and protocol info to decide which application to use. It was not clearly rejected but rather people seemed not to care about. It seems that people are so much into using daemons and vfs to access urls that they don't care about other solutions. The mimeopen author also thought about taking advantage of the fact that urls should be %u and %U, I don't know what is the advancement of this. For gqview it would require changing %F to %U in .desktop file.
Patrice, thanks, I'll see if I can dig up the ml reference (if you have it handy, could you pleaes reference it here).
2 messages: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-November/009016.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-November/009020.html
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There have been recently more talking about this issue on the xdg list, still no real solution, as far as I can tell.
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I'm of a mind to think the best short-term solution is to advocate apps use %u and %U in .desktop files per comment #1 , and consider this outside to perview of xdg-utils (at the moment at least, until the protocol extentions mentioned in comment #3 happen )