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famicom

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Registered: 2020-05-14

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[GNOME] Proper desktop entry files for Gnome Calendar and Gnome Music

I installed GNOME, and was poking around in the Default Applications settings. Even though I have Gnome Calendar and Gnome Music installed, they don't show as available options for the Calendar and Music default application. Evolution has taken Calendar's place, and Videos has taken Music's place. After some research, I reviewed the desktop files for all four applications:

* Calendar
* Evolution
* Music
* Videos

I can see that Evolution and Videos have mimetypes set for calendar and music types, respectively, whereas Calendar and Music have no mimetypes set at all. I could poke around in there and set mimetypes manually, but was wondering if there was a better way? I know there are a bunch of mimetype handlers listed on the wiki, but was wondering, is there something akin to:

* Set Music to open all audio filetypes
* Set Calendar to open all 'calendar' filetypes

It bugs me that these applications are all part of the same suite (GNOME), and they don't play nice with each other.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: [GNOME] Proper desktop entry files for Gnome Calendar and Gnome Music

There is nothing about setting a MIME type in any of the PKGBUILDs of those packages, so I'd say unless some third package manages that, an upstream bug report is the way to go.

famicom

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Registered: 2020-05-14

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Re: [GNOME] Proper desktop entry files for Gnome Calendar and Gnome Music

There is nothing about setting a MIME type in any of the PKGBUILDs of those packages, so I'd say unless some third package manages that, an upstream bug report is the way to go.

I'll look into it, thank you!