[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 16390] New: exo-preferred-applications not properly setting mime types

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16390

            Bug ID: 16390
           Summary: exo-preferred-applications not properly setting mime
                    types
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Exo
           Version: 0.12.11
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: maurizio.galli at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: Exo 0.12

Unless I am mistaken, exo-preferred-applications is not setting MIME types in
mimeapps.list. 

As a consequence if a web browser like Firefox set itself as default, it
overrides some of the settings exo-preferred-applications. 

Firefox writes in $HOME/.config/mimeapps.list

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-htm=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-html=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-shtml=firefox.desktop
application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-xhtml=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-xht=firefox.desktop

[Added Associations]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop;
text/html=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-htm=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-html=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-shtml=firefox.desktop;
application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xhtml=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xht=firefox.desktop;


Without this configuration, Firefox does not recognize being set by default.

The odd consequent behavior is that some applications would launch Firefox and
others would launch the web browser set in exo.  This makes the
exo-preferred-applications a bit "misleading"
(https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7277) or "broken".

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