xdg-open with gnome shell

[Adam Pribyl]

Does anybody know what is a replacement for 
gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open 
should work under gnome shell?

For me
$ xdg-open Pictures/
which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..

xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is 
missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have 
many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead 
nautilus for the Picture case).

I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for 
everybody, but me?

Thanks

Adam Pribyl

[Mathieu Bouffard]

On 06/02/2011 02:25 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> should work under gnome shell?
>
> For me
> $ xdg-open Pictures/
> which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
>
> xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> nautilus for the Picture case).
>
> I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> everybody, but me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Adam Pribyl

Did you set your preferred applications in system settings -> system 
info -> Default applications? (new spot since gnome-shell) If you did 
and it really ignores that then it's safe to say that it should be filed 
as a bug.

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Mathieu Bouffard wrote:
> On 06/02/2011 02:25 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> > gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> > should work under gnome shell?
> >
> > For me
> > $ xdg-open Pictures/
> > which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
> >
> > xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> > missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> > many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> > nautilus for the Picture case).
> >
> > I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> > everybody, but me?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Adam Pribyl
>
> Did you set your preferred applications in system settings -> system
> info -> Default applications? (new spot since gnome-shell) If you did
> and it really ignores that then it's safe to say that it should be filed
> as a bug.

I was looking at it, but there is no way how to specify e.g. default "open 
file" - when I insert e.g. USB stick, it auto opens doplhin. The set 
there is pretty limited.
> -- 
> Mathieu Bouffard <mbouffard fedoraproject org>

Adam Pribyl

[Samuel Sieb]

Mathieu Bouffard wrote:
> On 06/02/2011 02:25 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> > gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> > should work under gnome shell?
> >
> > For me
> > $ xdg-open Pictures/
> > which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..

I get that same error.
> > xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> > missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> > many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> > nautilus for the Picture case).

I do get nautilus showing up though.  But then I don't have any KDE apps installed.
> > I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> > everybody, but me?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Adam Pribyl
>
> Did you set your preferred applications in system settings ->  system
> info ->  Default applications? (new spot since gnome-shell) If you did
> and it really ignores that then it's safe to say that it should be filed
> as a bug.

There is no entry in there for file managers.

[Rex Dieter]

Adam Pribyl wrote:
> Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> should work under gnome shell?
>
> For me
> $ xdg-open Pictures/
> which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
>
> xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> nautilus for the Picture case).
>
> I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> everybody, but me?

See,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746

and followup upstream commit,
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c

Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(

Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?

-- Rex

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> > gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> > should work under gnome shell?
> >
> > For me
> > $ xdg-open Pictures/
> > which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
> >
> > xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> > missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> > many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> > nautilus for the Picture case).
> >
> > I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> > everybody, but me?
>
> See,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746
>
> and followup upstream commit,
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
> utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c
>
> Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(
>
> Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?

I'd love to verify that, but I do not see any difference between this 
commit and patch:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=461442&action=diff
that should be included in xdg-utils, right?

What second piece/adjustment had you in mind?
> -- Rex

Adam Pribyl

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > > Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> > > gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> > > should work under gnome shell?
> > >
> > > For me
> > > $ xdg-open Pictures/
> > > which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
> > >
> > > xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> > > missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> > > many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> > > nautilus for the Picture case).
> > >
> > > I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> > > everybody, but me?
> >
> > See,
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746
> >
> > and followup upstream commit,
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
> > utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c
> >
> > Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(
> >
> > Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?
>
> I'd love to verify that, but I do not see any difference between this
> commit and patch:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=461442&action=diff
> that should be included in xdg-utils, right?
>
> What second piece/adjustment had you in mind?

Ah.. sorry, I checked wrong commit. I see now the redirection is changed. 
Well the error is not displayed now, but still it starts konqueror 
instead nautilus.
> > -- Rex

Adam Pribyl

[Rex Dieter]

Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > > > Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> > > > gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> > > > should work under gnome shell?
> > > >
> > > > For me
> > > > $ xdg-open Pictures/
> > > > which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
> > > >
> > > > xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which
> > > > is missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I
> > > > have many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> > > > nautilus for the Picture case).
> > > >
> > > > I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> > > > everybody, but me?
> > >
> > > See,
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746
> > >
> > > and followup upstream commit,
> > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
> > > utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c
> > >
> > > Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(
> > >
> > > Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?
> I see now the redirection is changed.
> Well the error is not displayed now, but still it starts konqueror
> instead nautilus.

OK, what you're seeing is likely some other problem then.

I'll do some more testing on my own in the meantime.

-- Rex