On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:42 AM Tom Horsley <horsley1953@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:33:47 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Looks fine, right? But clicking on a link in Evolution opens Firefox.
> So my question is, if xdg-settings is meant to be the solution to DE
> incompatibility issues, why does this not work?

I can add to your confusion :-).

Here's the info I dug up the last time I tried to figure
out default apps:

http://tomhorsley.com/game/mimes.html

Of course that was a few years ago, and since this is
open source we are talking about, everything has probably
been re-written 5 times since then.

I noticed xdg-open stopped working on directories also (using F25). I frequently use "xdg-open ." from gnome-terminal when I want to do something which is faster in the GUI than from the CLI, and I've had to switch to "nautilus ."; I wonder if this is related?