Bug#801437: baobab is shown when trying to use caja in mate

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: forcemerge -1 #778302

Hi Andreas, hi Shirish,

On  Sa 10 Okt 2015 11:44:21 CEST, Andreas Henriksson wrote:

> Control: reassign -1 mate-session-manager
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hello shirish.
>
> Thanks for your bug report.
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:27:51AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Package: baobab
>> Version: 3.18.1-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I installed baobab while running mate. I was under the impression that
>> baobab runs when I call it/use it explicitly and not run when I'm
>> trying to use a file-manager, in this case caja. Please let me know if
>> there is a way to help you. I looked at the man-page as well as the
>> upstream page but nothing jumped at me.
>
> Please consider which package you report bugs against.
> What you're currently reporting is that baobab work.... NOT A BUG! :P
>
> I'm reassigning this bug report to MATE, but this means now this
> bug reports misses all relevant meta-data added by reportbug.
> Please followup to this bug report with that so the MATE maintainers
> have the information they need to deal with this issue and remove
> the moreinfo tag while doing so.
>
> From what I can see the mate-session-manager sets the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
> environment variable, see:
> http://codesearch.debian.net/results/XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP%20package%3Amate-session-manager/page_0
>
> ... while at the same time it doesn't provide defaults.list et.al. in
> the relevant location. This means one of the applications matching
> the mime type will be used at "random" (and other kinds of unrelated
> breakage from the rest of the missing files).
>
> cf. gnome-session-common and xfce4-session

this issue has been on my list for quite a while... Unfortunately, I  
only discovered this during the freeze period of jessie (or even after  
that, can't remember exactly).

I am about to fix this in mate-session-manager the same way that it is  
done in gnome-session. Thanks for inspiration on this!

>>
>> Look forward to clearing this up.
>
> Me too. Please file bug reports against mate for mate issues in the future.
> We're busy enough as it is on the Gnome side without having to also
> work on fixing MATE.

@Shirish: with future releases of MATE 1.10, you can configure your  
default apps in /etc/mate/defaults.list

> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson

Mike


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