Bug 99106

Summary:	xdg-mime defualt is inconsistent with xdg-open
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	tezeb <tezeb+freedesktop>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.1.0 rc3
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description tezeb 2016-12-16 11:25:49 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1. DE set to gnome3
2. unset XDG_DATA_HOME
3. have multiple valid pdf applications installed(ie. gimp, evince)
4. assume no custom settings for handlers
5. run: xdg-mime query default application/pdf
With XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL, it will display multiple paths being checked. It finds gimp.desktop in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
6. run: xdg-mime default /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop application/pdf
Again, debug shows:
Updating /home/user/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
7. run: xdg-mime query default application/pdf
It displays '/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop' as expected.

8. run: xdg-open xxx.pdf
It opens gimp.desktop(or whatever was the default).

The BUG:
Internally xdg-open uses gvfs-open(version 1.30.3 here), which uses ~/.config/ as default XDG_DATA_HOME when the variable is unset, but xdg-mime uses some awk magic and completly different path.

Comment 1 layus 2017-03-06 11:11:21 UTC

It is even worse than that. reading and setting values does not occur in the same file:

$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=3 xdg-mime query default text/html
Checking /home/gmaudoux/.config/mimeapps.list
firefox.desktop

$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=3 xdg-mime default chromium-browser.desktop text/html
make_default_kde: No kde runtime detected
make_default_generic chromium-browser.desktop text/html
Updating /home/gmaudoux/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=3 xdg-mime query default text/html
Checking /home/gmaudoux/.config/mimeapps.list
firefox.desktop

Comment 2 layus 2017-03-06 12:08:49 UTC

Oh, it seems this has been fixed in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95051. A new bugfix release for this ?

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2017-03-07 13:15:54 UTC

ok, closing as dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 95051 ***

Comment 4 tezeb 2017-03-07 14:05:29 UTC

Nice try... 
Still happens with patch from 95051 applied.
Have anyone even tested this?!!!!

The issue have to do with xdg-open, not only xdg-mime, which is clearly stated in reproduction step #7.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2017-03-07 14:12:52 UTC

sorry, misinterpreted comment #2 which claims that it is fixed

Comment 6 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:38:25 UTC

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