Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis:
> I think it's reasonable to want to be able to open PDFs in inkscape or
> GIMP (e.g. via the "Open With" menu in a file browser like Nautilus),
> just that they shouldn't be the default option. I think removing the
> association would be a not-so-good option; the blessed way to fix this
> is apparently to install a set of defaults.
>
> Specifically we should add to this package from gnome.scm to include the
> PDF -> evince association:
>
> (define-public gnome-default-applications
> (package
> (name "gnome-default-applications")
> (version "0")
> (build-system trivial-build-system)
> (source #f)
> (propagated-inputs
> `(("nautilus" ,nautilus)))
> (arguments
> `(#:modules ((guix build utils))
> #:builder
> (begin
> (use-modules (guix build utils))
> (let* ((out (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
> (apps (string-append out "/share/applications")))
> (mkdir-p apps)
> (call-with-output-file (string-append apps "/defaults.list")
> (lambda (port)
> (format port "[Default Applications]\n")
> (format port
> "inode/directory=org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop\n")))
> #t))))
> (synopsis "Default MIME type associations for the GNOME desktop")
> (description
> "Given many installed packages which might handle a given MIME type,
> a
> user running the GNOME desktop probably has some preferences: for example,
> that folders be opened by default by the Nautilus file manager, not the
> Baobab
> disk usage analyzer. This package establishes that set of default MIME
> type
> associations for GNOME.")
> (license license:gpl3+)
> (home-page #f)))
Like this?
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index 9a46495f1..34ecb5e05 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -5882,7 +5882,9 @@ software that do not provide their own configuration interface.")
(call-with-output-file (string-append apps "/defaults.list")
(lambda (port)
(format port "[Default Applications]\n")
- (format port "inode/directory=org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop\n")))
+ (format port "inode/directory=org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop\n")
+ (format port "application/pdf=evince.desktop\n")
+ (format port "application/postscript=evince.desktop\n")))
#t))))
(synopsis "Default MIME type associations for the GNOME desktop")
(description
> Possibly we could have a set of defaults for XFCE as well. See also
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/default_applications#XDG_standard.
Indeed.
I’m surprised upstream GNOME and Xfce don’t provide a ‘default.list’
file.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
