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[patch 0/4] Add perl-file-mimeinfo and dependencies; add it as an input to xdg-utils |
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Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:50:53 -0000 |
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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.
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 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.
I rambled on a bit too much... Here are some patches that add perl-file-mimeinfo
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Re: [bug#29472] [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add perl-file-basedir. |
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Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:44:56 +0100 |
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Hi Brendan,
I applied all 4 patches. However I took the liberty (1) to add a bit of
@code etc. markup in descriptions, and (2) to move them to
freedesktop.scm so that perl.scm doesn’t pull in all of
freedesktop/gnome.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
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