On Sun, 05 Oct 2025 at 17:03:25 +0200, Amr Ibrahim wrote:
I am not sure which Debian package this bug should be assigned to. However,
please change it if necessary, as I don't believe it is GNOME-specific.
It is GNOME-specific, and in fact gnome-session might be the correct
GNOME package (or rather, gnome-session-common). Apps only announce
whether they *can* open a particular file format, and it's up to the
desktop environment to have a preference for which of the apps that can
open a particular file format *should* open it by default.
Specifically, in GNOME the preference order is controlled by
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list, and in non-GNOME
environments it's controlled by some other
/usr/share/applications/*-mimeapps.list.
(A corollary is that if you want this to change in non-GNOME desktop
environments, you would have to open separate bugs for those other
desktop environments.)
However, none of the text editors currently announce that they want to
be considered for XML and other markup/programming formats: only the web
browsers and gnome-builder announce specific support for text/xml and
application/xml, and only gnome-builder for programming languages like
C. Perhaps gnome-text-editor, gedit, etc. should also announce
themselves as a good handler for programming and markup languages, but
currently they do not.
smcv
