Bug#282281: kde: KDE applications take over Gnome file types

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:33:54 +0100

Thanks for looking into it.  I still don't see why KDE adds
its applications to the list of Gnome mime types and handlers.
It seems to me there is some over-eager "merging" of the two
desktops going on.  Either I want to run KDE or Gnome; running both
is confusing.

While you may want assign this to Gnome, it is a problem for KDE:
until it gets fixed, I can't install KDE on any machine where there
are Gnome users because it just gets too confusing.

Thomas.

Adeodato Simó wrote:
> reassign 282281 gnome
> severity 282281 wishlist
> retitle  282281 gnome: include a gnomish defaults.list for the mime types
> stop here
> 
> * Tom [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:46:39 +0100]:
> 
> 
>>Installing the KDE desktop packages after having installed the Gnome
>>desktop (and possibly running KDE once) causes KDE to take over lots
>>of mime types from Gnome even when running Gnome.  For example, MP3's
>>are now played with noatun.  Also, Nautilus keeps crashing when trying
>>to view folders with multimedia content, which may be due to Nautilus
>>trying to invoke KDE applications.
> 
> 
>>It seems to me that something is seriously broken with the KDE packaging
>>for Debian.  Installing KDE packages or running the KDE desktop should
>>not make the Gnome desktop less usable.
> 
> 
>   ok, I've been talking to the Gnome maintainers, and it seems that
>   after gnome has made the list of available applications for some mime
>   type, then it selects as default the first one in alphabetical order.
> 
>   I've been told that you can change the application to be used via:
>   "right click on a mp3 in nautilus, properties, open with...".
> 
>   also, as it may make sense to have gnome to actually provide some list
>   of defaults applications (I think KDE does this, giving priority by
>   default to kde apps), I'm reassigning this bug to gnome (as agreed on
>   IRC). you may write to 282281@bugs.debian.org and give your further
>   opinios there.
> 
>   thanks to Sebastien Bacher for his assistance on IRC.
> 