Bug 6684

Summary:	choosen "default application" for mail, web, music, video etc. is not used as default
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Daniel Kalweit <d.kalweit>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	stormi-mageia
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Daniel Kalweit 2012-07-04 11:26:37 CEST

Description of problem:
When I choose in "System Settings / Details / Default Applications" a default application for mail, web, music, video etc. it is not used as default application.
I choosed Opera as default application for web and email and VLC for video and music. But when doubleclicking on a videofile Totem is still opened as default application and Mozilla is also still the default application for web...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Choose another application as default in "System Settings / Details / Default Applications" and doubleclick a corresponding mediafile.

Comment 1 Daniel Kalweit 2012-07-04 11:29:29 CEST

Sorry!
Forgot to tell you that I use Gnome3. Maybe the problem is specific for this desktop!

Comment 2 Daniel Kalweit 2012-07-04 23:21:15 CEST

Found out something new!
When clicking on a link out of any application - many programs have links to their project pages when clicking "Help / About" or something similar - the default browser (Opera) is started!!
But when clicking on a *.html file in the filebrowser (Nautilus) Mozilla is still used as default.
Hope my bugreport is not to confused - sorry!

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-28 17:26:02 CEST

Sorry we took so long to answer.

AFAIK the default applications set in those settings only work for links in other applications. In file managers, what gets open depends on the filetype associations, which can be parametered with more precision (for example totem for .mpg and vlc for .mp4, if you wish, firefox for .html, opera for .url...).

This is not a bug, although I admit it is confusing.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => stormi
Resolution: (none) => INVALID