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How do you change the default action on an item, old way not working in 0.813

Asked by pt123

In earlier versions gnome-do would seem to order the action list based on usage.

But in 0.813 the default action stays there no matter how many times you use the other actions.

I even deleted the ~/.local/share/gnome-do folders
and re-installed gnome-do and still the default action doesn't change

In earlier versions one could open the relevance(8) file in a text editor in GEdit.
Now it is unable to and and this error shows up
gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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pt123 (pt123) said : 		#2

??

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pt123 (pt123) said : 		#4

anyone

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David Bushong (dbushong) said : 		#5

I'd love to know how to get my scripts to suggest Run as the default again instead of Open

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pt123 (pt123) said : 		#6

It is good to know that someone else is facing similar issues, I am surprised not many are using Gnome Do to interact with their bash & pythons scripts.

I even opened a bug report on it but there has been no follow up from the developers.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/349856

When I went on to the gnome-do IRC channel, they were very reluctant to help, esp. at the possbility of reading the relevancy file.

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pt123 (pt123) said : 		#8

still no answer

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Chris S. (cszikszoy) said : 		#9

There's no way to manually change the relevancy of an item or action. If you'd like to do this, select your desired item or action, and hold shift while pressing enter a couple of times. This will increase the relevancy of whatever you have selected. It seems crude -- I know, but that's the way to do it.

As for scripts, for Do to show the "run" action, not the "Open" action, the script must have the executable flag set. This is what Do checks (the x flag) when determining whether or not to show the "Run" action.

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BrokenTusk (dave-meyer) said : 		#10

Here is the bare-bones solution to defining what app Gnome-do uses to OPEN:

Adding this env variable to a session (ie: add to ~/.profile):
export DE="gnome"
makes the OPEN action (using xdg-open) default to Gnome's preferred application settings
which will use the MIME associations set in ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

NOTE: you must kill and restart gnome-do for chgs to take affect

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