:file is not showing all registered associations

Question

:file command while having a .gpx file selected provides me with the following items:

│a few associations defined in .vifmrc..
│..
│                                                                                                                                             │
│ [present] [New Incognito Window] /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito %f                                                               │
│ [present] [New Private Window  ] opera --incognito %f                                                                                       │
│ [present] [New Private Window  ] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox --private-window %f       

I am surprised to see only a handful of associated programs from .desktop files, because this is what I get from mimeopen for the same file:

	1) Marble  (marble_gpx)
	2) JOSM  (org.openstreetmap.josm)
	3) notepad  (wine-extension-txt)
	4) XML Editor  (cxassoc-cxoffice-09274308-1263-49f9-9dc8-9aa5429d4a4d:text_xml)
	5) winebrowser.exe  (cxassoc-cxoffice-30699937-611f-4e95-a4c2-b84b1315db49:text_xml)
	6) XML Editor  (cxassoc-cxoffice-c4e90c7e-13fd-4fed-9b8b-ffc7c7b96f8c:text_xml)
	7) Internet Explorer  (wine-extension-xml)
	8) Google Chrome  (google-chrome)
	9) MapTiler Desktop 11.1  (maptiler-desktop)

and after right-clicking the file and selecting "Open With Other Application" in Nautilus I am getting the following list:

GpsPrune
GPX Viewer
GPXSee
Maps
JOSM
QmapShack

Nothing changes if I run vifm with --no-configs.

Arch Linux, x86_64, vifm 0.11.r632.g84ab7ba0e-1, Gnome DE

Thank you, jose

Answer 1

Support for parsing desktop entries is quite rudimentary. I added it, but didn't use for long, don't know if it's being used much at all. There are at least two possible reasons:

1. Files in ~/.local/share/applications aren't parsed.
2. Mime type isn't determined correctly (Vifm doesn't do the parsing, you can check determined type in Ctrl-G dialog).

Comments

Thank you. It looks to be case #2. I am seeing Mime Type: text/xml which does not really make sense.

$ mimetype foo.gpx
foo.gpx: application/gpx+xml

This type is also displayed by Nautilus. In vifm sources I can see that GFileInfo (GTK) is attempted first so it kinda makes me wonder if I compiled it correctly. And sure enough there is a --without-gtk in Arch's PKGBUILD. After dropping that switch I now get a proper list of associated programs (almost the same as in Nautilus).

Too bad I don't quite recall why I used that flag but since it's missing in the official package I think I should just blow it away. What do you think?

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GTK is linked to if GTK is found during configuration, so you probably didn't enable it explicitly.

GTK is used only for mime-types and only because it gave better results for some files at some point, if it doesn't, just turn it off and you won't lose anything.