Allow setting apps to be opened without prompting for certain MIME types #780
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On Endless OS, the "eos-gates" tool which is supposed to show a dialog like the following when you try to open a .deb, .rpm or .exe, since such packages cannot be installed or executed on Endless OS:
However because there are other handlers for the
application/x-deb
MIME type, the app chooser dialog is shown when one downloads a.deb
and opens it from the browser:I believe that after accepting the default 3 times, it would be used without prompting.
It would be useful for the distro to be able to override the default behaviour, so that across all apps, or failing that across a manually-created list of popular web browsers, Gates opens by default without prompting for this mime type.
This is a cousin of #471 because, as far as I can tell, this information lives in the permission store.
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