Desktop file integration not quite working on Gnome about cb_thunderlink HOT 9 CLOSED

Just acknowledging I saw the report which seems pretty clear to me.
This must be an issue with the integration under Fedora 33, but I can't spot at once.
I will have a look, probably in the weekend.

Camiel B.

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Can you share the contents of the "*.desktop" file referred into the output?

Also, can you manually execute gio mime x-scheme-handler/cbthunderlink cb_thunderlink_cbthunderlink.desktop and post the output?

Camiel B.

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Sure! Here's the contents of one of the files (the other one is similar):

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=cb_thunderlink_thunderlink
Exec=/home/takluyver/Code/cb_thunderlink/cb_thunderlink.py %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=thunderbird
Categories=Application;Network;Email;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/thunderlink;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=Compose;Contacts
NoDisplay=true

When I ran the gio mime command this morning, it worked (output: Set cb_thunderlink_cbthunderlink.desktop as the default for x-scheme-handler/cbthunderlink). After that, xdg-open is working. 🙂

I wonder if Gnome is caching the desktop files, and by the time I came to run the command this morning, it had noticed the new ones? I found a command update-desktop-database which initially seemed relevant, but the output file described in its man page (~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache) doesn't contain any thunderlink entries, even after I've got this working, so possibly Gnome has something similar somewhere else.

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@takluyver
Thanks for the feedback. That seems weird ...
Does the gio mime ... command also run correctly when using the script?
(I'd rather think about some shell related problem, but currently it is just the better guessing work ...)

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Yup, if I run the script again, it's working now:

Executing ['gio', 'mime', 'x-scheme-handler/cbthunderlink', 'cb_thunderlink_cbthunderlink.desktop']
(b'Set cb_thunderlink_cbthunderlink.desktop as the default for x-scheme-handler/cbthunderlink\n', None)
Writing /home/takluyver/.local/share/applications/cb_thunderlink_thunderlink.desktop
Executing ['gio', 'mime', 'x-scheme-handler/thunderlink', 'cb_thunderlink_thunderlink.desktop']
(b'Set cb_thunderlink_thunderlink.desktop as the default for x-scheme-handler/thunderlink\n', None

I can try removing the files, waiting a bit and then running the script again if there's anything we want to investigate.

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I can't reproduce either ...
So unless you can reproduce and find something to investigate further upon, I will close this "soon".
Camiel B.

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I've deleted the files, I'm going to try again after I next restart, and see if it happens again.

I also just spotted that you could probably install just one .desktop file, as MimeType can specify more than one option. E.g. Firefox on my system has:

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

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Today it installed correctly, so it seems I can't reproduce it. 😕

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So I guess I can close this issue for now.
Let me know if there would need more help.
Camiel B,

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