Where are the applications in 'Open with other application" coming from?

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:27 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Together with the "Open with other application" list entry, there are
> all applications shown, that are mentioned (via .desktop) to handle this
> special file type. But in "Open with other application", there are also
> applications shown, that are definitely not mentioned to handle this
> file-type. And in this list, I e.g. get 3 entries for Bluefish, although
> there are only two relevant .desktop files. I attached a screenshot of
> the list that I get, when I do this for e.g. a text/html file.
> 
> It's also possible, that the full Debian menu is put into this list too.
> There for I CCed the pkg-gnome group of the Debian project.

Yes, that's a known problem. See comments here,
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2007-January/030757.html

I don't know if there's a bug open about this in Debian BTS.

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Sven Arvidsson
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