defaults.list or mimeapps.list?

[Rex Dieter]

A. Walton wrote:

>> In my experience, stuff set in mimeapps.list in /usr/share isn't used by
>> gnome.  Should I go retest that?
>>
> 
> You should go retest that. The code is supposed to load mimeapps.list and
> defaults.list from $XDG_DATA_DIRS and the system data dirs (usually
> /usr/local/share/:/usr/share).
> 
> Here's the code.
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/gio/gdesktopappinfo.c

Thanks, ironically looks like the problem I experienced recently was due to 
a kde bug,
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332107

where my prefered/custom value of XDG_DATA_DIRS ended up being ignored. :(

-- Rex