[Portland-bugs] [Bug 30453] xdg-open: open_generic_xdg_mime is broken when a .desktop file Exec has arguments

[bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30453

--- Comment #6 from Jim Duchek <jim.duchek at gmail.com> 2010-10-09 14:57:13 PDT ---
Yeah, I know how that goes.  There are a lot of issues with freedesktop not
using freedesktop stuff.  For example, xdg uses the 'file' command to determine
mime types, instead of using the freedesktop shared-mime-info package.  

Is it worth spending some time, you think, for me to make the generic fallbacks
more robust?  Or is it a freedesktop decision that the DE should always handle
it?  I would hate to spend time working on it and then it never gets released
tho :)



(In reply to comment #5)
> mimeopen is a perl thing (perl-File-MimeInfo).
> 
> These generic fallbacks are just that, last-resort things to try, when the
> native desktop doesn't provide facilities to do it already (like gnome and kde
> do).
> 
> deprecated?  no, I hope not!
> 
> Though, not having a recent release is certainly not good (certainly counter to
> ... releaes early, release often).  I've personally pushed for that, but I'm
> also not the one doing the work there (I could do more to help in that regard
> too... put up or shut up... kind of thing). :)

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.