Bug 100006

Summary: Logic lacking in xdg-mime:info_gnome()
Product: Portland Reporter: Stian Sletner <stian+bz>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
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Description Stian Sletner 2017-02-28 13:30:23 UTC 
The logic in info_gnome() checks if gio, gvfs-info or gnomevfs-info are available, but if neither of them are, it exits silently with exit code 0 (success).

This causes unexpected behaviour (ie "nothing happens") on a bare XFCE desktop, where none of these things are installed.

It's possible that the author expected $? to be nonzero in this case, but that's not how it works, observe:

$ ls missing
ls: cannot access 'missing': No such file or directory
$ echo $?
2
$ if ls missing; then echo ok; fi
ls: cannot access 'missing': No such file or directory
$ echo $?
0

So it seems to me there lacks an else clause here that errs.  At a glance this logic seems to be repeated in the other info_*() functions but I couldn't tell you if those too can trigger in reality.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2017-02-28 14:50:33 UTC 
modern glib2 includes gio, so having any gtk-based DE without it, seems... unlikely?
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:38:34 UTC 
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