[Bug 1294689] Re: Firefox doesn't use dolphin to open download directory

[Wilfried Essig]

Kubuntu 14.04, all updates till today (2014-12-22):
Had same problem, but with audacious comming up, instead of dolphin. Deinstalled Audacious. Then Gwenview came up instead. 

After some searching i found, that firefox is using
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache from desktop-file-utils. This was
line for inode/directory :

"inode/directory=audacious.desktop;kde4-gwenview.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;"

Same Problem for pdf, getting gimp instead of okular: 
"application/pdf=gimp.desktop;kde4-okularApplication_pdf.desktop;" 


Editing by hand, showed, that ff used always the first entry of this for directory. Same Problem with  line "application/pdf=kde4-okularApplication_pdf.desktop;gimp.desktop;" 

Everey update triggering /var/lib/dpkg/info/desktop-file-utils.postinst
created /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache from completely scratch.
No changes by hand survived. Applications got sorted alphbetically in
each line again.

Ugly (but system wide) solution for me now : I added some lines in /var/lib/dpkg/info/desktop-file-utils.postinst, after "update-desktop-database  -q" :
---
set -x
grep -v "application/pdf=\|inode/directory\|MIME Cache" /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache >/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache.xx
cat /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache.willi.kopf >/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
cat /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache.willi >>/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache.xx
sort /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache.xx >> /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
rm /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache.xx
set +x
---

I can repair that for my family and the school i'm supporting, but I
consider that very annoying especially for unexperienced users. Please
get that repaired.


Yours Wilfried Essig

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