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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:02:45 JST minute

   is there a modern way to do this? https://github.com/sandsmark/selectdefaultapplication

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:11:18 JST minute

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     • Sonny

     @sonny ah, but that's no GUI

   • Sonny (sonny@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:11:20 JST Sonny

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     @mntmn

     `gio mime` ?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:40:13 JST minute

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     • Jasper 🍉

     @jasper yeah i tried it and it's actually pretty ok! unfortunately it's not in debian

   • Jasper 🍉 (jasper@mastodon.nl)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:40:17 JST Jasper 🍉

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     @mntmn now i notice it's called an "ugly" hack? Like it's a small program doing one thing, the PKGBUILD says it needs only `qt5-base` and `hicolor-icon-theme`, so pretty good on the dependency side.

     In the source code it says the .desktop file parsing is ugly. And not many comments. (also it's a bit _too_ simplistic, some keywords arguments, help&manpage, about thingy would be good)

     But a complicated constellation of huge programs people are heavily invested in would be uglier?..

   • Jasper 🍉 (jasper@mastodon.nl)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 00:40:19 JST Jasper 🍉

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     @mntmn seems modern enough to me?

     Also i am not exactly sure what improvement you're going for with "modern".

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 01:03:13 JST minute

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     • mmu_man

     @mmu_man i use wayfire :D

   • mmu_man (mmu_man@m.g3l.org)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 01:03:18 JST mmu_man

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     @mntmn kinda depends on the desktop… KDE & GNOME both have their own settings for this…

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 03:30:31 JST minute

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     • Hugo 雨果

     @whynothugo true, it's better than expected!

   • Hugo 雨果 (whynothugo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 03:30:32 JST Hugo 雨果

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     @mntmn Site says this is an "ugly hack" but it's actually pretty good. The best I've seen for this is just using xdg-mime and some scripting around it.