[Nix-dev] configuring xdg-open

[Mathijs Kwik]

it works now.

"okular.desktop" is called "kde4/okular.desktop" in nixos.
So the files and locations were right, but nothing happened because
this desktop entry wasn't found in any of the dirs.


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:19 PM,  <phreedom at yandex.ru> wrote:
> On Friday, October 04, 2013 03:39:34 PM Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>
>>
>
>> I'm running a custom i3 desktop setup with some kde base apps.
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>> When I click a pdf file in dolpin, kde correctly launches okular to
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>> view the file.
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>> However, using xdg-open to open the file leads to my web browser
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>> (conkeror) trying to download the file.
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>>
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>> I googled a bit on xdg-open and it seems I need to add some
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>> configuration files to ~/.local/share to configure default
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>> applications per mimetype.
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>> However this did not work. Looking at my environment, it seems XDG_*
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>> variables only point to system-wide or nix-controlled locations.
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>>
>
>> Is this by design? How should I configure this correctly?
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>> PS: I'm using the new zsh stuff, which might be related.
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>
>
> from http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> :
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>
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> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific
> configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set
> or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used. "
>
>
>
> "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to
> search for configuration files in addition to the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME base
> directory. The directories in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS should be seperated with a
> colon ':'. "
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>
>
> and the same for XDG_DATA*
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>
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> Thus nixos setup seems to be just fine and xdg is actually used by many
> packages such as kde.
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>
>
>> Have a nice weekend,
>
>> Mathijs
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