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Like many people I use calibre as my ebook viewer. Yet, this program is slowly becoming a living nightmare. First is the root exploit. Second is the way that calibre wants to take over every single file. Almost all my files were defaulting to being opened in calibre. Why on Earth would I want an openoffice document opened in calibre? The creators of calibre think I do.
This obviously required fixing.
The file /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list looks like this:
[Default Applications] application/x-sony-bbeb=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-lrfviewer.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-ruby=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop text/rtf=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/pdf=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-cbz=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-mobipocket-ebook=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-cbr=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop text/fb2+xml=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/epub+zip=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop text/plain=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop text/html=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/xhtml+xml=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/ereader=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/oebps-package+xml=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop
This is a nonsense. It has been setup to open plain text, html and pdfs in calibre. How totally stupid! It needs editing. This is better:
[Default Applications] application/x-sony-bbeb=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-lrfviewer.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-cbz=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-mobipocket-ebook=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/x-cbr=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop text/fb2+xml=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/epub+zip=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/ereader=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop application/oebps-package+xml=calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop
Then run sudo update-desktop-database. That seems to fix it.
Good fix, thanks for publishing it.
Using the calibre packages provided by your distro rather than installing it from upstream is probably a good idea. The packages for most distros fix the biggest calibre problems, like the two noted here.
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"Is Calibre the most annoying program in the word ever?"
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You must be like 8 years old.
Posted by Jose Curvo on 2011-12-11 20:25:54.