On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> Greetings. > > For a while now it's been possible for desktops to have their own mime > info (which is great), but it seems we have also gotten rid of the > generic one, which causes some strange behavior: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243049 > > ie, /usr/share/applications/defaults.list no longer exists, and > shared-mime-info ships just a: > /usr/share/applications/gnome.list > > This leads to issues with tools that don't happen to be run under > gnome. Of course other desktops can (and probibly should) make their > own lists, but IMHO we should also have a generic one for tools not > running under any particular DE. > > So, my questions: > > 1. Can we add back a defaults.list ? > > 2. Should other DE's ship their lists also in shared-mime-info or > should they provide it as part of some other base package? > On the one hand one place might be nice, on the other it would make > shared-mime-info update more often and sometimes for things that don't > affect you. > > Thanks for any thoughts... > > kevin > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Cinnamon and MATE ship mimeapps lists (though they weren't functional until recently), and I am not sure if they are set up to work without the defaults. I think it makes more sense for the DE-specific mimelists to be shipped by the DE, and not a single package.
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