Bug 99538

Summary:	xdg-open does not handle multiple applications returned from xdg-mime
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	johannes.schilling
Version:	TP
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	possible default applications are separated by semicolons

Description Kjetil Torgrim Homme 2017-01-25 17:53:26 UTC

Created attachment 129146 [details] [review]
possible default applications are separated by semicolons

on my Fedora 24 system, xdg-mime will return a semicolon separated list (from /usr/share//applications/mimeapps.list).  xdg-open will use the whole string verbatim as the name of the desktop file, and it fails.

Example:

  $ /bin/xdg-mime query default image/jpeg
  eog.desktop;
  $ /bin/xdg-mime query default image/svg+xml
  eog.desktop;gthumb.desktop;

notice the trailing semicolon.

it seems to me xdg-open should split on ";" and look for each application in turn.  I have a patch to do so at

https://github.com/kjetilho/xdg-utils/tree/open-fix

the patch is enclosed.  it also fixes a trivial but critical typo in xdg-open.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2017-01-25 18:04:45 UTC

Alternatively, I think we can consider that 'xdg-mime default' return at most a single (validated) value.  By validated, I mean that it must/should(?) be verified to exist.

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