Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:15:39 +0100
Ricardo Mones <mo...@debian.org> écrivait :

> control: forwarded -1 https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/312
> control: severity -1 wishlist
> 
> Hi Jean-Marc,

Hi Ricardo,

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 01:57:28PM +0100, Jean-Marc wrote:
> > Package: sylpheed
> > Version: 3.7.0-4
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > Sylpheed does not take into account the XDG default application the
> > desktop environment should use for opening files of a specific
> > MIME/Filetype.
> > 
> > Example: . when I tried to open a PDF file, Sylpheed uses gimp to open
> > the file.
> > 
> > Gimp is the first application in the
> > /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache entry defining which
> > application(s) can read/open/associate with pdf files.
> > 
> > $ grep application/pdf  /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
> > application/pdf=gimp.desktop;inkscape.desktop;org.gnome.Evince.desktop;libreoffice-draw.desktop;
> > 
> > It should use my desktop's default application from Debian Gnome
> > default spec in /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list to open
> > PDF files.
> 
> AFAIK Sylpheed is not a GNOME application, is just a GTK+2 application.

I am speaking about taking into account the Cross-Desktop Group (XDG) spec.

I had mentionned the file containing the Debian default values for my desktop 
as example.

It has nothing to do with Gnome in particular.

See https://www.freedesktop.org/ for more info.
. Association between MIME types and applications
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
or in this one-page:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.1.html

> Anyway I'm forwarding this upstream, just in case they may consider
> worth to implement it for a better user experience.

Thank you.

> thanks for reporting,
> -- 
>   Ricardo Mones 


Jean-Marc <jean-m...@6jf.be>
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