Re: Re: libunity testing

[Gerald B. Cox]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox(a)bzb.us&gt; wrote:

>  ok, something happened with the whole xdg-settings, mime, with 5.6.  If I
>  use 5.5 Chrome works fine, if I try 5.6, it doesn't recognize the default.
>
>  Under 5.6:
>  $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  chrome-app-list.desktop
>
>  So, I need to change this to google-chrome-unstable.desktop
>  I then enter:
>
>  $ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome-unstable.desktop
>  xdg-mime: application argument missing
>  Try 'xdg-mime --help' for more information.
>
>  If you check the doc for xdg-settings, the syntax above is correct (and
>  works with 5.5).  In fact,
>  the documentation even gives an example using Chrome.  Now it doesn't work.
>
>  Am I missing something... ???
>  
Just switched back to 5.5 and noticed that chrome-app-list.desktop also is
working fine under 5.5, and verified that the xdg-settings command works
under 5.5; which tells me something is going on with 5.6 in this regard.