Where are the applications in 'Open with other application"coming from?

[Tom Parker]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:27:53 +0100, Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net> wrote:
> Together with the "Open with other application" list entry, there are
> all applications shown, that are mentioned (via .desktop) to handle this
> special file type. But in "Open with other application", there are also

Two problems:
1) Applications being listed that can't open anything ("Activate Screensaver" for example). This is fixed by http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345521
2) Applications being listed that can't open a particular mimetype. This can be fixed in a similar way, except using the MimeType key rather than the Exec key of the .desktop files. However, this will require extending libgnome-menu because it doesn't currently have a function to get at the mime type info for a .desktop item.

Tom Parker