On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 20:22 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:53:22 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 22:27 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> >> The fisrt one is already set but seems to have not effect (it is still
> >> looking for "/usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list" and the
> >> second one is for configuration files... so, what we are missing here?
> >> I don't think it is required an additional command to populate the
> >> changes >:-?
> > <snip>
> > Exactly, that's the question. Thanks - John
>
> There is somethig weird here.
>
> On a test system (running squeeze) I've set:
>
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/user/Desktop/testing
>
> (with its correspondent "application" folder inside and a
> "defaults.lists" file with just one defined application)
>
> [Default Applications]
> text/html=iceweasel.desktop
>
> After re-login, I checked that the environment variable had the "correct"
> value and as expected, it returned *just* the above path. I expected a
> bit of mess and no shortcut working at all but, no... all seems to be
> just fine, as before. No change has been done, applications are still
> launched with their matching programs... and *.html files are being
> opened with Epiphany, despite my custom setting.
>
> So I wonder what is the true role of that env. variable ("XDG_DATA_DIRS")
> and if it is being used (how/for what) at all :-?
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>
>
From one of the bug reports I read trying to track this issue, it
appears that /usr/share and /usr/local/share are always searched but
after the directories assigned to XDG_DATA_DIRS. I have not
experimented to confirm that - John
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