[Portland-bugs] [Bug 17481] New: xdg-open does not use the right application to open file

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17481

           Summary: xdg-open does not use the right application to open file
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: breaddawson at gmail.com


I'm using xdg-utils 1.0 which was in Ubuntu 8.04
Actually i was learning how to specify the default application used for
different formats, and then i found xdg-utils. It is really very useful.

But there's sth i found strange:

in 
        ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
        ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

it wrote like this:

application/pdf=/opt/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Support/AdobeReader.desktop

in 
   　　/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
 　　  /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache   

it wrote like this:

application/pdf=evince.desktop;/opt/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Support/AdobeReader.desktop

And then i try these:

$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
/opt/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Support/AdobeReader.desktop

which means the config in .local will override the one in /usr/local/share

but when i use

$ xdg-open some-file.pdf

evince will come up.

It's really a weird thing since double-cliking on pdf file in Nautilus will
surely trigger Adobe Reader.


I tried other formats, such as text/xml, and it seems the config of this in
.local will override the one in /usr/local/share, which is known as behaving
normally.

I don't know if this is a bug of xdg-utils or AdobeReader, so if more
infomation is needed, plz let me know.

Thanks.


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