Bug#424923: Debian bug followup (Re: bug 424923)

[A. Costa]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:19:27 +0200
Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:

> Indeed, it looks like xdg-utils only Suggests libgnomevfs2-bin, you
> might want to file a separate bug against the xdg-utils package about
> this.

Agreed.

> gnome-vfs still seems to think that abiword should open this file. Can
> you check if you have a ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
> file, and if so, see if temporary moving it helps.
> 
> You could also check for abiword-usercustom.desktop, should be in
> ~/.local/share/applications/ and moving it out of the way.
> 
> Please save the files as they might be needed later to reproduce the
> bug.

	# how it is now
	% gnomevfs-info Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe | grep Default ; echo $?
	Default app       : abiword-usercustom.desktop
	0

	# hide abiword file.
	% gzip ~/.local/share/applications/abiword-usercustom.desktop    

	# it worked.
	% gnomevfs-info Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe | grep Default ; echo $?
	1

	# double check
	% gunzip ~/.local/share/applications/abiword-usercustom.desktop.gz 
	% gnomevfs-info Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe | grep Default ; echo $?
	Default app       : abiword-usercustom.desktop
	0

	# test if hiding the defaults file makes a difference.
	% gzip ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list             
	% gnomevfs-info Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe | grep Default ; echo $?
	Default app       : abiword-usercustom.desktop
	0

When the 'abiword' file is missing, 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' starts OK.
When the 'abiword' file is present, 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' fails as
per Bug#424923.  

The file is attached, it might be worth pointing out the garbage
characters on line #4, and line #15 looks guilty...

  % nl -b a ~/.local/share/applications/abiword-usercustom.desktop | grep '[^1]4\|15'
     4  Name[ja]=AbiWord ������������������������
    15  MimeType=application/x-executable;

Questions that come to mind:  if 'abiword-usercustom.desktop' is what
causes it, then what caused that this unfavorable mutation?  Are the
garbage characters normal?  Why should 'nautilus' properties for
'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' show 'wine'?

HTH...
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