Bug#861595: audacious wrong mimetype

[James Cowgill]

Control: severity -1 normal

Hi,

On 01/05/17 09:38, HJ wrote:
> Package: audacious
> Version: 3.7.2-1+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the current version of audacious sets itself as the default application for 
> inode/directory this breaks many packages(for example 
> firefox>toolbar>downloadbutton>open containing folder will become unusable 
> since firefox will now open the folder with audacious instead of the default 
> filemanager)

This same issue has been raised in relation to easytag as well. It boils
down to the system selecting a random handler for a specific MIME type
if there is no default set.

IMO your DE should be setting a suitable default file manager which
users could then override if they want. What DE are you running?

> a possible fix would be to remove the mimetype from the *.desktop files

That would work, but would then prevent "Open With" working with
audacious on directories. In your case you can workaround this by
setting the default yourself with "xdg-mime default XXX inode/directory"
where XXX is the name of the desktop file you want to handle
directories. What we really need is a way to prioritize MIME type
associations, but I don't think that's possible at the moment.

James

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