xdg-open does not use engrampa for .zip files

[cweiske]

When doing xdg-open file.zip, the contents of the file are displayed with less in a terminal - instead of using engrampa.

xdg-open tries to find the application by looking into the following files:

• ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
• /usr/share/mate/applications/defaults.list
• /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

/usr/share/mate/applications/defaults.list does not exist, so it falls back to the default file provided by the ubuntu 14.04 desktop-file-utils package. This one maps .zip files to file-roller:

application/zip=file-roller.desktop

It would help if mate shipped its own defaults.list file that actually defines engrampa to be used for zip files.

[Lantizia]

I second this, exceptionally annoying.

[flexiondotorg]

This is a distro maintainer issue. I've tested this in Ubuntu MATE 17.04 alpha and Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and xdg-open file.zip opens in Engrampa.