Bug#849397: Easytag mistaken for a File Manager

[James Cowgill]

Control: merge -1 849398
Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi,

On 26/12/16 16:54, Edward Jeckyll wrote:
> Package: Easytag
> Version: 2.2.4-1
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I installed Easytag 2.2.4-1 via the Synaptic Package Manager
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)? I clicked on the Home Folder icon in the Places Menu
>    * What was the outcome of this action? When clicking on the Home
> Folder icon in the Places Menu it launches Easytag instead of the Caja
> File Manager
>    * What outcome did you expect instead? The Caja File Manager should
> launch. This bug appears to have been in place for at least 3 years -
> see:
> http://superuser.com/questions/568161/mate-panel-opens-application-instead-of-caja

This bug comes up every so often (I think #788325 [1] was the last
time). It's caused by a combination of easytag registering a handler for
inode/directory and using a DE which does not set a default handler.

As previously discussed, easytag is not the right place to fix this bug.
Having easytag accept the 'inode/directrory' mime type is correct
because you may want to open a directory with easytag. The correct
solution is probably for MATE to register Caja as the default handler
for 'inode/directory'. I notice the package
'debian-mate-default-settings' does this, but I do not know why it uses
the global 'defaults.list' file instead of 'mate-mimeapps.list' which I
would have thought would be the right place to do this.

Thanks,
James

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/788325

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