Bug#990636: qgis not listed as file browser alternative for opening kml files

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

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On 7/3/21 1:50 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> While working on KML files, I discovered that qgis did not show up in
> KDE Dolphin as an alternative to open the KML files I created.  Only
> Marble showed up there, despite the fact that I have both installed.
> 
> I believe the reason is that the MIME type
> application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml is not listed in the qgis .desktop
> file as a supported file format.  Perhaps it should be added?  Note, 
> 
> <URL: https://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport/PackageList > and
> <URL: https://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport > have more information
> on MIME types and packages in Debian.

Are you sure qgis supports opening KML?

When I open one of the example KML files from libkml-dev with qgis it
shows an Invalid Data Source error.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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