Thread: How To : Associate MPlayer, Transmission, and other apps as default handlers
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2010-06-17 , 20:33
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#271
Originally Posted by qole View Post
OK, rebhana, it isn't anything broken with dbus-switchboard. You just have to add lines to the two mimetype files.

First, /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

application/postscript=hildon-dbus-switchboard.desktop

Next, /usr/share/applications/uri-action-defaults.list

application-postscript=hildon-dbus-switchboard.desktop

Note that it is application-postscript not application/postscript in the uri-action-defaults.list file. And no, don't ask me why.

I will add this type to my postinst script, might as well make it available for everyone.
If I understand correctly, I should do the same for all the mimetypes that are mapped to Evince_Debian in user-mimetypes.list, to wit
Code:
application/postscript=Evince Debian
application/x-bzpdf=Evince Debian 
application/x-gzpdf=Evince Debian
application/x-bzpostscript=Evince Debian
application/x-gzpostscript=Evince Debian
application/x-dvi=Evince Debian
application/x-bzdvi=Evince Debian
application/x-gzdvi=Evince Debian
image/x-eps=Evince Debian
image/x-bzeps=Evince Debian
image/x-gzeps=Evince Debian
with all "Evince Debian" changed to hildon-dbus-switchboard.desktop in corresponding entries in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list, and similarly for the uri-action-defaults.list (why this duplication btw?)?

Do I also understand correctly, that these manual entries are necessary for all instances where microB knows about the mimetype, and only when microB gets "unknown/unknown" dbus-switchboard looks up the mimetype itself, in which case user-mimetypes.list determines the handler defined in /usr/lib/dbus-switchboard/dbus-switch-apps.cfg. And dbus-switch-xref.cfg is finally used when dbus-switchboard cannot determine the mimetype without looking at file extensions?

What a maze!
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