Additional information:
Experimentation has determined that only the combination of
userapp-Iceweasel-RYY0FY.desktop and mimeapps.list
when they appear together in the directory
~/.local/share/applications
prevents links in emails from working.
Links continue to work when any of the 3 files
mimeapps.list
userapp-Iceweasel-RYY0FY.desktop
userapp-Icedove-EGPMWX.desktop
appear in any other combination. For example, links work with
mimeapps.list
userapp-Icedove-EGPMWX.desktop
and with
userapp-Iceweasel-RYY0FY.desktop
userapp-Icedove-EGPMWX.desktop
or when they appear individually by themselves. It is only when the the
combination of
mimeapps.list
userapp-Iceweasel-RYY0FY.desktop
appears in the directory ~/.local/share/applications
that prevents links from working, at least on my system.
Hope this helps to isolate the problem.
--
Rick Lutowski
r...@jreality.com
512-688-1675
On 02/07/2017 08:24 AM, Rick Lutowski wrote:
On 02/07/2017 07:43 AM, Jens Reyer wrote:
On 02/06/2017 05:38 PM, Rick Lutowski wrote:
On 02/06/2017 09:34 AM, Jens Reyer wrote:
Hi Rick,
[I'm currently investigating a similar issue here (yay, another one
;).]
Can you post the content of these two files (if they exist on your
system):
~/.config/mimeapps.list
File mimeapps.list does not appear in ~/.config or any of its
subdirectories on my system.
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
This file exists on my system. Here are its contents:
Do the files ~/.local/share/applications/userapp-Icedove-EGPMWX.desktop
and userapp-Iceweasel-RYY0FY.desktop exist?
If yes please post them. I assume they have broken content and need
some specific transition in the packaging.
Yes, they exist. Here are the contents.
userapp-Icedove-EGPMWX.desktop:
----
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Exec=/usr/lib/icedove/icedove %u
Name=Icedove
Comment=Custom definition for Icedove
----
userapp-Iceweasel-RYY0FY.desktop
-----
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Exec=/usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel %u
Name=Iceweasel
Comment=Custom definition for Iceweasel
-----
As manual workaround I'd suggest to remove these .desktop files and the
mimeapps.list. Afterwards I assume everything will work as expected.
Yes. Removing (renaming) them makes links in emails work again.
Thank You!!
Firefox and Icedove/Thunderbird might ask you to make them the default
apps. Assuming everything works I'd just disable that check. (Your whole
*system* is probably configured correctly, but these programs don't
realize this, and therefore want to be set as default in the *user
session*.
If you click Yes (make default) a file similar to your current
mimeapps.list will be created in ~/.config/mimeapps.list (the other
location is deprecated). I'd hope the new content is ok.
Greets
jre
