Bug 71932

Summary:	Consistent ordering for update-desktop-database
Product:	desktop-file-utils	Reporter:	sworddragon2
Component:	general	Assignee:	Hans Petter Jansson <hpj>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
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Description sworddragon2 2013-11-23 01:18:43 UTC

I'm using desktop-file-utils 0.22 and the manpage for update-desktop-database contains the following:

"The order of the desktop files found for a MIME type is not significant.  Therefore, an external mechanism must be used to determine what is the preferred desktop file for a MIME type."


It is not unlikely that an application will use the first desktop entry in the mime database if a related entry in [Default Applications] is not set. In the worst case this means 2 systems with the same desktop files could generate different cached mime database which could result in different default desktop entries used for some applications. Maybe it would be useful if a sorting here is guaranteed. A simple sorting by filename or something else should not hurt.

Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2015-09-18 09:50:44 UTC

Sorry for the noise, reassigning to new maintainer.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-11-12 15:15:15 UTC

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