Bug#1117382: AW: Bug#1117382: gnome-session: XML files should open in a text editor by default, rather than in a web browser

[Amr Ibrahim]

<span style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Von: Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org></span><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gesendet: Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2025 18:00 Uhr</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An: Amr Ibrahim <amribrahim1987 at hotmail.com>; 1117382 at bugs.debian.org <1117382 at bugs.debian.org></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Betreff: Re: Bug#1117382: gnome-session: XML files should open in a text editor by default, rather than in a web browser</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> However, none of the text editors currently announce that they want to</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> be considered for XML and other markup/programming formats: only the web</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> browsers and gnome-builder announce specific support for text/xml and</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> application/xml, and only gnome-builder for programming languages like</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> C. Perhaps gnome-text-editor, gedit, etc. should also announce</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> themselves as a good handler for programming and markup languages, but</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> currently they do not.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: "Aptos", "Aptos_EmbeddedFont", "Aptos_MSFontService", "Calibri", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yes, given how popular the XML format is for configuration files, it makes sense for both gnome-text-editor and gedit to offer themselves as suitable XML file handlers.</div>