[Bug 1155817] Re: No user-friendly way of changing the default applications in Ubuntu desktop
Ralph Richardson
ralph.richardson at internode.on.net
Fri Oct 11 16:37:03 UTC 2013
"Set as default" in "properties" does not work for me either!
Has not worked for a very long time!
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Title:
No user-friendly way of changing the default applications in Ubuntu
desktop
Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
There is no quick and easy way to change default applications that
open certain kinds of files (video, text, audio). There seems to be a
lot of demand for this, judging by these AskUbuntu questions (and this
is only for video files! More people are having trouble doing this for
text editors, music players etc.):
http://askubuntu.com/questions/119244/cant-change-global-default-video-player-to-vlc
http://askubuntu.com/questions/91701/how-to-set-vlc-as-default-video-player
Currently e.g. if I want to switch from Totem to VLC for video
playing, I either have to open properties and set VLC as the default
manuall for *every* video file extension I encounter (.avi, .mp4, .mkv
to name only a few - this is even worse for text files). The "default
applications" options in the Control Center don't seem to do anything.
The only feasible solution seems to be to open the administrative
file /usr/share/applications/defaults.list and search for
totem.desktop and replace all occurences with vlc.desktop - this is
hackish to say the least, while also error-prone, and against the
multi-user philosophy (since it applies the changes for all users).
Expected behaviour - since there are already two GUI places to specify
default applications for certain file types at least one of them
should work properly. Either the file properties should have two
options - make default for this extension and make default for all
files of this kind (e.g. video, audio, text etc.) or the default
applications in the Control Center should work.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.287
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 15 22:59:31 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-19 (147 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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