On 30/06/12 02:51 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On sam., 2012-06-30 at 18:40 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> reassign 679453 xfce4 >> thanks >> >> Daniel Dickinson <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Package: debian >>> Severity: normal >> >> Unfortunately, there is no 'debian' package, so the report you filed >> wasn't forwarded to any maintainer who could do something about it. >> >> When filing Debian bugs, please file them against particular packages >> that exist, or virtual packages. >> >>> I have noticed that when using XFCE with some programs that are >>> Gnome-centric that parts of GNOME get installed and that instead of >>> using XFCE defaults for applications (probably by MIME) (e.g. Thunar >>> for fhle management) that programs like Iceweasel will use GNOME >>> default apps. This is a major pain because without the full GNOME >>> desktop default Gnome bits don't work well, and besides I want (and >>> prefer) the XFCE (which is my desktop environment I am running) bits. > > Well, you should be able to chose what applications run in two ways: > > * in preferred applications, you can chose stuff like browser, file > manager, mail client etc. > * in the file manager, in a file properties you're able to chose what > application will open what kind of file > > Now you would need to provide specific non-working stuff for us to do > anything. >> >> ...however, in this case, I do not know what would be the appropriate >> package to file it against. I'm reassigning it to xfce4, so the XFCE >> maintainers can further process it, if necessary. > > I just can't do anything with that, unfortunately :)
Well I gave a specific example of Iceweasel opening Nautilus instead of Thunar (I'll add, e.g. when doing Open Containing Folder), but the this isn't an issue of a specific problem but of the way application preferences are handled around MIME-types because they all default to the GNOMEish behaviour if GNOME components are present. It's an general architectural problem not a specific-instance bug. GNOME folks are unlikely to care, or at least in the past haven't cared about non-GNOME users. Maybe it's changed in the past few years I've been not stayed particularly connected to what's going on in Debian. Regards, Daniel -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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