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Repeating apps when Open with...

Post by Pixelworship »

Hi. I have noticed that a lot of applications repeat in the list when I right-click and choose to open a file with another application. This is very annoying.
Can something be done about it? Please see the attached image for details.

Thanks in advance!
kritakrita.png
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Re: Repeating apps when Open with...

Post by Flemur »

This is very annoying.

Yup. The linux implementation of mime is bad.

Look in
~/.local/share/applications/
and check for multiple "krita" files. ( something...krita...something.desktop)

They're text files and you can open them and see that file type they think they're associated with.

I sometimes delete everything from that directory ("wine" gets pretty bad there). You can remake the association with the "rt-click->choose app" from the file browser.

If you're still getting multiple entries, try in a terminal:
$ cd /
$ sudo find -iname "*.desktop" | grep -i krita
to check the whole system for multiple "*krita*.desktop" files.
(they're supposed to be in a certain place, but a lot of mime stuff is supposed to be blah blah blah, but isn't).
Please edit your original post title to include [SOLVED] if/when it is solved!
Your data and OS are backed up....right?
Pixelworship

Re: Repeating apps when Open with...

Post by Pixelworship »

Thanks, I think that might have done the trick. For future reference, I deleted all the files named krita from /usr/share/applications/kde4, except for krita.desktop.
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