Bug 2023

Summary: User is unable to modify application title/description, and therefore differentiate between two permutations of the same application.
Product: shared-mime-info Reporter: Joel Becker <jlbec>
Component: generalAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Joel Becker 2004-12-06 10:00:49 UTC 
I like to use the QIV image viewer for viewing images quickly.  I have been
using it with Nautlius (and the mime-info backing it) successfully for quite a
while.  I was, of course, annoyed to discover that the upgrade to
shared-mime-info lost all my old information, but I wanted to push forward and
get it working.

So, in Nautlius, I right-clicked a JPEG and chose "Properties".  I then selected
the "Open With" tab.  I clicked "Add", and entered "qiv" as the application. 
Sure enough, an entry for qiv was added.  So far, so good.

Then I clicked "Add" again, and entered "qiv -ft" (fullscreen, fit the image to
the screen).  Another entry "qiv" was added to the list.  So now, the "Open
With" list contains two "qiv" entries, completely indistinguishable.  My
right-click menu for JPEGs contains the same two indistinguishable entries.

I looked all about for UI to change the "qiv" title, so as to differentiate.  I
couldn't find anything.  I eventually hand-edited the .desktop entries.  That
worked.  But I shouldn't have to do that.  Most users won't know how to do that.
Comment 1 Joel Becker 2004-12-06 10:02:04 UTC 
Debian unstable shared-mime-info 0.15-1
Intel Pentium III.
Comment 2 Joel Becker 2004-12-06 10:09:13 UTC 
Note that I hand-edited .desktop files.  After reading some more spec info
(where the URLs weren't broken on freedesktop.org), I begin to think this bug
might be .desktop software related and not belong to shared-mime-info.  I went
to shared-mime-info because that's where helpful #gnomers sent me.

If this bug is miscategorized, please move it.
Comment 3 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-12-10 11:08:15 UTC 
This is a nautilus bug please report it to bugzilla.gnome.org

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