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xdg-mime defualt is inconsistent with xdg-open

Submitted by tezeb

Assigned to Portland Bugs

Link to original bug (#99106)

Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. DE set to gnome3

  2. unset XDG_DATA_HOME

  3. have multiple valid pdf applications installed(ie. gimp, evince)

  4. assume no custom settings for handlers

  5. run: xdg-mime query default application/pdf With XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL, it will display multiple paths being checked. It finds gimp.desktop in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

  6. run: xdg-mime default /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop application/pdf Again, debug shows: Updating /home/user/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

  7. run: xdg-mime query default application/pdf It displays '/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop' as expected.

  8. run: xdg-open xxx.pdf It opens gimp.desktop(or whatever was the default).

The BUG: Internally xdg-open uses gvfs-open(version 1.30.3 here), which uses ~/.config/ as default XDG_DATA_HOME when the variable is unset, but xdg-mime uses some awk magic and completly different path.

Version: 1.1.0 rc3