desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[Pedro Villavicencio <pedro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report
you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change
the Status back to "New". Thanks again!


** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to desktop-file-utils in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666803

Title:
  update-desktop-database ignores defaults.list

Status in “desktop-file-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: desktop-file-utils

  After uninstalling an acroread package, several programs (i.e. firefox
  or thunderbird) open pdf files with gimp rather than evince although I
  set up evince to be the default opener in nautilus which consequently
  handles files fine.

  Apparently the other programs start the opener which comes first in the /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache list, which is gimp.desktop. If I change the entry to have evince.desktop at first, firefox handles the file just fine.
  Each time, the update-desktop-database file is run though, the entries get swapped again and gimp starts to open pdf files.
  Consequently either firefox (or whatever mechanism they use to launch the program) ignores the defaults.list or the update-desktop-database does.

  This has been previously discussed at Fedora:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496237

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-file-utils/+bug/666803/+subscriptions