Bug#788325: easytag: Don't register as default handler for directories

[IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)]

On 06/19/2015 09:38 PM, James Cowgill wrote:
> I think you could reorder the easytag entries in /etc/mailcap by doing
> some stuff with update-mime.

i have added a fix in the master branch to use low-priorities mimetype
associations in /etc/mailcap.


>  However it won't fix this problem because
> desktop environments (including xdg-open and gnome-open) don't read
> /etc/mailcap, they read the mimeapps.list files. I can't see any way to
> set priorities for those (only user and desktop environment overrides).
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.1.html
> 

DoH!!

[1] is quite explicit: there are no priorities...


anyhow, your answer gave me two clues:

- the good thing about that is, that i can now easily fix the problem
for me, by adding the following to
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:

    [Removed Associations]
    inode/directory=easytag.desktop;


- the bad thing is that this is on a per-user basis, and cannot be
handled by the package.
most likely the proper way would be to ensure that easytag does not
appear in the [Default Applications] section (and that at least one
proper filebrowser does appear in this section).
but it also seems that Debian does not really maintain a mimeapps.list,
which makes it rather hard to use :-(

fgmadsr
IOhannes


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/MIME#Application_association

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