Re: "Open with other application" affects the default handlers

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti gmail com>]

Hi,

I'm going to have a look to these in the weekend...
I agree they should be marked as blocker.

Marco

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:35:29 -0500, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:30:56 +0100, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in investigating an Epiphany bug
> > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169039 "view source appears
> > broken") I've found some serious problems with "Open with other
> > application":
> >
> > Right-click a file, select "Open with other application", expand "use a
> > custom command", enter "gedit --new-window", click Open. This opens the
> > selected file in gedit, but it also creates a "gedit.desktop" file in
> > ~/.local/share/applications/ .
> > Now, if gedit was the default handler for some mime type (for example
> > text/plain), using gnomve_vfs_mime_get_default_application("text/plain")
> > then gnome_vfs_mime_application_launch will try to launch the handler
> > using the new .desktop file. This will fail, because its Exec line
> > doesn't include any argument placeholder (%U).
> >
> > I think there are really 3 bugs here:
> >
> > 1) Nautilus creates a .desktop file with a name which will clash with a
> > system-installed .desktop file
> > 2) The newly created .desktop file has an Exec line which makes it
> > unsuitable for launch with either gnome_vfs_mime_application_launch or
> > gnome_desktop_item_launch.
> > [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169202]
> > 3) GNOME-VFS uses the wrong .desktop file
> > [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169198]
> >
> > Together, these bugs make Epiphany's "View Source" command fail.
> 
> Granted I'm biased (I filed the original bug ;) but I'm very tempted
> to mark this collection of bugs a showstopper for 2.10- it must affect
> other programs (that we haven't seen yet) and is totally unfixable by
> the average user.
> 
> Luis
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