| Summary: | xdg-desktop-menu adds entries to defaults.list | ||
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| Product: | Portland | Reporter: | Dmitry Mikhirev <mikhirev> |
| Component: | xdg-utils | Assignee: | Portland Bugs <portland-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED MOVED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.1.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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The xdg-desktop-menu script, when installing a menu entry, sets the application as default handler for MIME types that are listed in its desktop file. This behavior was introduced in commit 1f7f2ea7 with the following message: > Make application the default handler for a mimetype if it is the only > handler for that mimetype so far. In fact, this is incorrect. xdg-desktop-menu does not check if there are other handlers or not, it only checks that there's no *default* handler already set. Even if it performed such a check, it would be strange to set the only possible handler as default explicitly. I consider such a behavior is a misfeature. Is is not documented anywhere, and it is unexpected that the tool, the only purpose of which is to add a menu item, adds some MIME types associations. Furthermore, it is impossible to disable this (e.g via a command line option), and, as already reported in #71825, such an association is not removed when removing the corresponding menu entry or even when the application itself is being removed. Please consider reverting commit 1f7f2ea7 and disabling such a strange behavior.