Bug#825993: Rosegarden is not proposed when opening .rg files

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Sebastian Ramacher]
> No, please don't. Please get file fixed to report the correct mimetype
> instead.

I'm not convinced that is possible.  I've asked about this in
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/825994 >.

Do you agree that it should be possible to click (or double click) on a
Rosegarden file in the desktop file manager and get Rosegarden to start
automatically?  If modifying file proves to be impossible, do you have
any idea how to get the file opening to work?

> Adding application/gzip will make rosegarden show up for all gz
> compressed files and - even worse - make it the default program for
> application/gzip as long as there is no other application/gzip handler
> with sorts before rosegarden or there is default handler set by the
> DE. We already have enough of the "PDFs open in GIMP per default" or
> "text files open with editor from wine" madness.

I agree that the approach has some disadvantage, and the one you quotes
is the major one, but I believe it is less of a disadvantage for
unskilled users than having Rosegarden fail to show up as an alternative
when he is trying to open a Rosegarden file in the file manager.

I believe it is better to get several options and be able to pick a
working one from them than it is to not get any options.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen