[Portland-bugs] [Bug 95051] New: xdg-mime does not write the file it reads in a query

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95051

            Bug ID: 95051
           Summary: xdg-mime does not write the file it reads in a query
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
          Assignee: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: freedesktop at wgmd.de

A xdg-mime query will read .config/mimeapps.list first
(https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-mime.in?id=ef8a58be4049697bb6347c3c5b8fff4d2b2deb86#n397).

But setting a default application will write to
.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
(https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-mime.in#n244).

This way one can't change the default application, if .config/mimeapps.list was
created by some means.

Also, xdg-mime will fail with returncode 4 in that case, which isn't very
descriptive.

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