Re: [Tracker] [Fwd: [Bug 131247] Re: libdeskbar-tracker crashes at session start]

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 00:34 +0200, Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> On 8/10/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > marcus,
> >
> > Ubuntu likes your deskbar patch!
>
> Nice! I installed gnome (it made _huge_ leaps!!!) and it's the coolest
> way using tracker!
>
> > mikkel ok to apply this? (if I dont hear from you soon I will apply
> > anyway)
>
> One thing though. I talked with michael biebl about xdg-open and
> gnome-open --- he would suggest to use gnome-open as default action
> for .desktop files and fallback to xdg-open. But on my system
> gnome-open opens .desktop files as textfile with gedit/vim/... -
> xdg-open runs the application though. Any hint on how I can fix this,
> it's kind of irritating.

not off hand - I would use xdg-open if it works (xdg-utils should be a
recommended package)