xdg-settings rational explanation ???

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/27/2013 02:22 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 01/26/2013 12:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 14:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When using chrome as my browser I want ktorrent used for opening magnet links.  Originally transmission was being used and the following was the case....
>>>
>>> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler magnet
>>> transmission-gtk.desktop
>>>
>>> So, I did....
>>>
>>> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler magnet ktorrent.desktop
>>>
>>> No matter how many times I executed that command the "get" still returned transmission-gtk.desktop.
>>>
>>> Finally I erased transmission-gtk and transmission-common.
>>>
>>> When I first executed the "get" it still returned transmission-gtk.desktop.  I then did the "set" again, and finally ktorrent.desktop was returned and chrome used ktorrent as requested.
>>>
>>> So, can anyone give a suggestion as to why the "sets" failed to change the settings until transmission was removed from the system?
>>>
>>
>> Did you logout/login between the set and the get?
>>
>> As I'm sure you remember, we had a whole thread about this sort of thing
>> a while back:
>>
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2012-March/011284.html
>>
>> Since I finally got it to work I didn't worry any more about it, but my
>> impression at the time was that this was due to a kludge somewhere in
>> the default protocol-handling setup, and that it was going to be fixed.
>> Looks like that hasn't happened yet.
>
> There's a bug between xdg-settings get/set
>
> I believe your "set" operation is working correctly (mostly), but "get" is failing to grok correctly what was just set for some reason on KDE.
>
>

Well, even after logging out and logging back in transmission would get started.  So, I think the get was accurate.

Since all is working now maybe I'll just be happy.  :-)


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