svg: wrong file type association

[Andreas Wehler]

Hi.

zim 0.65.2; Xubuntu 16.04

From within zim some svg file is always opened with XFCE ristretto image viewer.
But default is set to inkscape, with MIME type editor.
  1) Thunar handles it right.
  2) xdg-open file.svg handles it right (launches inkscape),
  3) zim handles it wrong (starts ristretto instead of inkscape)

Test, put a link into zim. e.g.:
  [[./file.svg]]

Where does zim get its file type association from?

Thanks,

   Andreas

[Andreas Wehler (andreas-wehler)]

Ohh, no.

Much is said in the zim manual: (Help:Default Applications).

But there is still one remark left:
It seems that there are multiple ways to find some default applicaton at some hierarchy level, and the applications (file browsers, web-browsers, xdg-open, exo-open, ...) differ somehow or interpret the given rules in various ways.

Just wondering, but there is a documented overrule-all method.

Q: Is there some tool (a small python app) that queries all the possible decision branches and finally reports the application that would be selected for the given file type? This could be seen as reference and prove some arbitrary application to conform to or deviate fro the considered standard.

If such a tool is present as some sort of self-explaining component then please mention it in the zim manual. I think it would help a lot. Or one could add more verbose debugging info to zim on request (increase debugging level with some option).

Thanks a lot!

   Andreas