Re: [Evolution] Displaying Attachments

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 09:27 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> I thought the whole point of using XDG in this sort of situation was
> that it is desktop agnostic - so for the OP using KDE it would do the
> right thing! 

        Hi,
yes, I'd expect that too, but it seems the standard defines something,
but actual implementations differ.

> what is the definitive way of setting the default that is
> used if you aren't using Gnome as your desktop.

Rather than remembering tens of different command syntaxes, I'd just
tell those xdg-... command wrappers (like 'xdg-mime') that I want to do
the change for GNOME (or better any glib/gvfs/gnomevfs application, for
what it worth), by:

   $ XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME xdg-mime .....

> ...since Evolution is clearly relying on the Gnome configuration and
> not the actual desktop config, ...

To be picky, Evolution relies on glib and glib does what it does. Any
glib application using GAppInfo should be similarly affected. I can
create a little test program as a proof of concept :)

        Bye,
        Milan