Bullseye: exo-utils 4.16.0-1 and exo-preferred-applications???

Charles Curley

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Apr 8, 2021, 8:00:04 PM4/8/21

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The programs exo-csource and exo-preferred-applications seem to be
absent from the package exo-utils, in spite of being advertised as
still being there. This is version 4.16.0-1 of the package, on Bullseye.

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root@orca:~# cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/exo-utils.list
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/exo-desktop-item-edit
/usr/bin/exo-open
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/exo-utils
/usr/share/doc/exo-utils/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/exo-utils/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/exo-utils/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/exo-utils/copyright
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/exo-desktop-item-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/exo-open.1.gz
root@orca:~# apt show exo-utils
Package: exo-utils
Version: 4.16.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: xfce
Source: exo
Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <debia...@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 310 kB
Depends: libexo-2-0 (= 4.16.0-1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.0), libxfce4ui-2-0 (>= 4.15.1), libxfce4util7 (>= 4.9.0)
Breaks: xfce4-cddrive-plugin (<= 0.0.1-0ubuntu2), xfce4-volstatus-icon (<= 0.1.0-0ubuntu5)
Homepage: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/start
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program,
suite::xfce, uitoolkit::gtk
Download-Size: 218 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
Description: Utility files for libexo
This package contains the Xfce settings plugin and the utility files for
libexo-2-0 which are:
- exo-csource
- exo-desktop-item-edit
- exo-open
- exo-preferred-applications

root@orca:~# which exo-open
/usr/bin/exo-open
root@orca:~# ls /usr/bin/exo-*
/usr/bin/exo-desktop-item-edit /usr/bin/exo-open
root@orca:~#
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John Crawley

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Apr 9, 2021, 2:20:04 AM4/9/21

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On 09/04/2021 08:38, Charles Curley wrote:
> The programs exo-csource and exo-preferred-applications seem to be
> absent from the package exo-utils, in spite of being advertised as
> still being there. This is version 4.16.0-1 of the package, on Bullseye.

exo-preferred-applications has been moved from exo-utils
to the much larger xfce4-settings:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/exo/-/issues/51#note_21045

The Debian package pages seem to need updating:
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/exo-utils
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/xfce4-settings
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Charles Curley

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Apr 9, 2021, 12:20:04 PM4/9/21

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On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 15:03:24 +0900
John Crawley <jo...@bunsenlabs.org> wrote:

> exo-preferred-applications has been moved from exo-utils
> to the much larger xfce4-settings:
> https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/exo/-/issues/51#note_21045

Thank you.

As near as I can tell, exo-preferred-applications has gone away
entirely. xfce4-mime-helper will tell one what the current settings
are, but does not appear to allow one to change the settings.

To change settings, xfce4-settings-manager -> Default Applications. I
had hoped for a program I could script.

>
> The Debian package pages seem to need updating:
> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/exo-utils
> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/xfce4-settings

Agree.

John Crawley

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Apr 10, 2021, 10:50:04 PM4/10/21

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On 10/04/2021 00:26, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 15:03:24 +0900

> As near as I can tell, exo-preferred-applications has gone away
> entirely.

That does seem to be the case.
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/-/commit/c955a4806f92eb25d341ad71714f558800efa55c#b0e6c4c10d3fff48da0bf054a90caf006a2042b9

>> The Debian package pages seem to need updating:
>> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/exo-utils
>> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/xfce4-settings
>
> Agree.

A file search for exo-preferred-applications in bullseye still brings up exo-utils,
but that package's file list has no exo-preferred-applications:
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=exo-preferred-applications&mode=path&suite=testing&arch=any
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/exo-utils/filelist

exo-open comes as a dependency of Thunar file manager, but without xfce-settings (presumably) it loses some utility, for example 'exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator' just brings up an error box "Could not find fallback TerminalEmulator application".

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