xdg-open with gnome shell

[Adam Pribyl]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Rex Dieter wrote:

> 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?
>
> See,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746
>
> and followup upstream commit,
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
> utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c
>
> Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(
>
> Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?

I'd love to verify that, but I do not see any difference between this 
commit and patch:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=461442&action=diff
that should be included in xdg-utils, right?

What second piece/adjustment had you in mind?

>
> -- Rex
>

Adam Pribyl