xdg-open with gnome shell

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Mathieu Bouffard wrote:

> On 06/02/2011 02:25 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> Does anybody know what is a replacement for
>> gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
>> should work under gnome shell?
>>
>> For me
>> $ xdg-open Pictures/
>> which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
>>
>> xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
>> missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
>> many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
>> nautilus for the Picture case).
>>
>> I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
>> everybody, but me?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Adam Pribyl
>
> Did you set your preferred applications in system settings -> system
> info -> Default applications? (new spot since gnome-shell) If you did
> and it really ignores that then it's safe to say that it should be filed
> as a bug.

I was looking at it, but there is no way how to specify e.g. default "open 
file" - when I insert e.g. USB stick, it auto opens doplhin. The set 
there is pretty limited.

> -- 
> Mathieu Bouffard <mbouffard fedoraproject org>

Adam Pribyl