julien lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> writes: > Le 2017-11-28 10:24, l...@gnu.org a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> (Moving the discussions to guix-devel.) >> >> brendan.tildes...@openmailbox.org skribis: >> >>> I was wondering why my pdf documents were getting opened in Gimp by >>> default instead of Evince, so I investigated xdg-open and found it >>> uses mimeopen as a fallback, and packaged it. Turns out it didn't >>> make a difference and the issue was simply that the generated >>> mimedata.cache in xdg-mime-database had Gimp listed before Evince. >> >> Oh, good catch. Profile generation is sensitive to package order; so >> indeed, if GIMP comes first, it “wins.” >> >>> I was also I little confused that xdg-mime-database produces so >>> many conflicts with shared-mime-info. It's role appears to be to >>> update the data in shared-mime-data and have it overshadow the >>> original data when conflicts are resolved during profile >>> generation. Looks ugly seeing all those conflicts though. >> >> I guess it’s OK in that users normally don’t want to install these >> packages at all, let alone installing both in the same profile. >> >>> I had a look at Fedora's version. They just have a single >>> shared-mime-data package that runs update-mime-database, but also >>> they add a few changes to make Evince open pdf's instead of Gimp, >>> among other changes. >>> >>> This makes me feel that it's desirable for us to also tweak >>> mimedata to make it more sensible -- Pdf's should open in a pdf >>> reader before it opens in an image editor. It seems unrealistic to >>> only tweak upstream projects to make all this mimedata mesh >>> together perfectly to produce ideal default behaviour. >> >> Right, so I think the immediate course of action here would be to patch >> GIMP’s MIME data so that it does not register as a PDF viewer. >> >> If we stumble upon other issues like that, we can fix them similarly. > > Thanks for investigating that. > > Inkscape also wants to open pdf files ;) > On my laptop, the recommended programs include evince, libreoffice draw, gimp, inkscape, imagemagick and winebrowser. I am not running guixsd though.
>> >> How does that sound? >> >> Thanks for investigating! >> >> Ludo’.
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