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Bug 775938 - Lack of --help option in new gvfs-* wrapper breaks xdg-utils
Lack of --help option in new gvfs-* wrapper breaks xdg-utils
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: general
1.31.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-12-10 23:15 UTC by Sebastian Keller
Modified: 2016-12-12 13:46 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
programs: Handle --help by gvfs tools wrapper (4.00 KB, patch)
2016-12-12 12:53 UTC, Ondrej Holy 		committed Details | Review

Description Sebastian Keller 2016-12-10 23:15:41 UTC 
The new wrapper that replaced the 'gvfs-*' commands does not support the '--help' option which is used by some of the 'xdg-utils' programs to test for their presence. One example of how this is being used in 'xdg-utils' is this:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-mime.in#n78

There are many more of these spread across the different 'xdg-utils' scripts.

This currently breaks opening downloaded files in Chrome and causes them to be opened with Firefox instead of the associated applications.
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2016-12-12 12:53:51 UTC 
Created attachment 341815 [details] [review]
programs: Handle --help by gvfs tools wrapper

The gio cmd tool doesn't handle --help/-h for each command.
The expected commandline is the following: "gio help [command]".
Detect this case and call the help properly from wrapper.

This also fixes various xdg-utils scripts.
Comment 2 Ondrej Holy 2016-12-12 13:46:49 UTC 
Attachment 341815 [details] pushed as aa61b05 - programs: Handle --help by gvfs tools wrapper