Bug#788325: easytag: Don't register as default handler for directories

[David King]

Hi James

On 2015-06-10 11:10, James Cowgill <james410 at cowgill.org.uk> wrote:
>This bug has been reported a few times upstream.
>…
>The argument against changing it was that easytag can infact handle the
>inode/directory MIME type properly so it should be allowed to have it
>in it's MimeTypes list.
>
>On balance (due to the issues it causes) I would probably lean towards
>removing it, which I see has already been done in git.

The MIME type is still present in the desktop file (and in the Nautilus 
extension for the master branch) in git.

>David?

It is not really a problem of EasyTAG that installing a desktop file, 
with a valid list of accepted MIME types, causes a different part of the 
system to adjust its associations. There is no defined way to adjust 
MIME type associations across all desktop environments, and each 
environment handles this differently. Modern GNOME versions simply 
ignore the inode/directory MIME association on anything that is not 
Nautilus.

In this specific case, if gnome-open (an old GNOME2 component) fails and 
xdg-open succeeds, it simply means that each has a different way of 
handling a newly-installed desktop file with a MimeType key. If you 
want to work around the bugs (or unexpected behaviours) in each desktop 
environment by removing the inode/directory MIME type, that is something 
that is best done downstream. The root cause of the issue either needs 
fixing with a freedesktop.org specification for MIME type associations 
and desktop-specific (as well as desktop-neutral) defaults, or for the 
current specifications to be updated to do something similar.

As far as I know, this problem is not specific to the inode/directory 
MIME type, so I do not see why it should be singled out as a problematic 
case.

-- 
http://amigadave.com/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/attachments/20150610/18c341d7/attachment.sig>