Bug 23424

Summary: rfe: xdg-mime --system/global support
Product: Portland Reporter: Brian Thomason <brian.thomason>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
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Description Brian Thomason 2009-08-20 08:45:51 UTC 
xdg-mime default doesn't behave as I would expected.  Even when run with root privs, it attempts to create /home/$USER/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

Here on Ubuntu, the /home/$USER/.local/share/applications dir doesn't exist, and it simply fails.  Even if it did exist, when run with root privs, I would expect it to edit the global defaults.list file in /usr/share/applications, which on Ubuntu systems, is a symlink to /etc/gnome/defaults.list whih is contained in a package a pre-populated.

I would like to be able to pass --system to xdg-mime default and have it only modify /usr/share/applications/defaults.list (and respect the symlink if it is a symlink) rather than local files in ~.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2010-07-09 08:17:28 UTC 
xdg-utils aren't generally for root/global operations, but for per user items.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2011-03-31 06:02:34 UTC 
use 
xdg-mime --mode system

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