Bug 406741

*** Bug 354595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Ok, please make banshee-1.desktop the default handler in glib2-branding-SLED/openSUSE for everything except real media specific mime types (ie ram).

It would be good if banshee-1.desktop didn't advertise real media support.

Aaron: see bug 440615.

(In reply to comment #6 from JP Rosevear)
> Ok, please make banshee-1.desktop the default handler in
> glib2-branding-SLED/openSUSE for everything except real media specific mime
> types (ie ram).

We have no good way to do this. I can take the current list of mime types handled by banshee, but this will get outdated at some point and this is really not a good idea. The fix is to remove the real media mime types from banshee-1.desktop.

Stanislav might have another idea on how to fix this, though.

I agree with removing or real MIME types.

As a long term solution, I would like to see virtual MIME types:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/005928.html and follow-ups
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-February/007801.html

I think, that it can be implemented only by changing of update-mime-database command.

It remains for year only as an idea (with partial implementation attempt for KDE). Should I open a FATE for it? It may improve totem, gimp, eog...

Can someone with a SLE install check that banshee is the default for the various mime types it handles? It should be the case, according to the glib2-branding package.

You can check /var/cache/gio-2.0/defaults.list to see the default handlers. And I guess "SuSEconfig --module glib2" should be run to make sure it's correctly set.

Btw, it probably makes sense to kill this SuSEconfig script and simply install it in /usr/sbin, and call it in %post of the branding package.

> it probably makes sense to kill this SuSEconfig script ... and call it in %post

Impossible. After any change in desktop files, the script can generate different result. (Package is installed/uninstalled => Find the next good candidate for MIME type.)

There following possible chances how to get rid this SuSEconfig:

- Manually add needed %post and %postun in all packages that have any desktop file installed (and live with the fact, that script will be started ~1000 times during installation.

- Wait for "one time virtual symbol triggers" feature in rpm.

- System daemon checking, whether defaults.list is still up to date.

- Make the desktop cache user specific and check, whether it is up to date whenever any application is started (this is the way how KDE works).

(In reply to comment #10 from Vincent Untz)
> Can someone with a SLE install check that banshee is the default for the
> various mime types it handles? It should be the case, according to the
> glib2-branding package.
> 
> You can check /var/cache/gio-2.0/defaults.list to see the default handlers. And
> I guess "SuSEconfig --module glib2" should be run to make sure it's correctly
> set.

NEEDINFO'ing for this. Since the banshee bug about real media mime types has been fixed, this sounds like it should all be working as expected now.

Hrm. Ping here :-) I don't have a SLE install, but if nobody has one handy, I can check it. Just tell me.

Double-clicking a OGG file (video+audio) in SLED11 RC1 (from a Nautilus folder window) opens the document in Banshee

Double-clicking a OGG file (video+audio) in SLED11 RC1 (from a Beagle search result window) opens the document in Firefox - All document types open in Firefox

So I would think that while this is fixed in Beagle, it is broken in other applications due to some other mime-type related issues.
See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463123 

(In reply to comment #15 from Guy Lunardi)
> Double-clicking a OGG file (video+audio) in SLED11 RC1 (from a Nautilus folder
> window) opens the document in Banshee
> 
> Double-clicking a OGG file (video+audio) in SLED11 RC1 (from a Beagle search
> result window) opens the document in Firefox - All document types open in
> Firefox
> 
> So I would think that while this is fixed in Beagle, it is broken in other
> applications due to some other mime-type related issues.
> See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463123 

I assume this is is actually reversed since above you say nautilus launch works fine now?

I think this was resolved for the OGG files specifically. The separate issue for beagle-search has been identified I believe.


I believe this can be closed as fixed.

Closing as per #17.