--- xdg-open.orig	2009-11-04 21:47:58.168292802 -0800
+++ xdg-open	2009-11-04 21:47:50.118295119 -0800
@@ -360,6 +360,32 @@
 
 open_generic()
 {
+    MIME_TYPE=`xdg-mime query filetype "$1" | sed "s/;.*//"`
+    DEFAULT=`xdg-mime query default "$MIME_TYPE"`
+    if [ -n "$DEFAULT" ] ; then
+        xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
+        [ -n "$xdg_user_dir" ] || xdg_user_dir="$HOME/.local/share"
+        xdg_user_dir="$xdg_user_dir/$xdg_dir_name"
+        xdg_system_dirs="$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
+        [ -n "$xdg_system_dirs" ] || xdg_system_dirs=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
+
+        for x in `echo "$xdg_user_dir:$xdg_system_dirs" | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
+           if [ -r "$x/applications/$DEFAULT" ] ; then
+              DEFAULT="`grep "Exec=" "$x/applications/$DEFAULT" | sed "s/Exec=//"`"
+              if which "`echo $DEFAULT | cut -d ' ' -f 1`" &> /dev/null ; then
+                 break
+              fi
+           fi
+        done
+        if which "`echo $DEFAULT | cut -d ' ' -f 1`" &> /dev/null ; then
+            $DEFAULT "$1"
+            if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+                exit_success
+            else
+                exit_failure_operation_failed
+            fi
+         fi
+    fi
     IFS=":"
     for browser in $BROWSER; do
         if [ x"$browser" != x"" ]; then