Comment 6 for bug 1001902

My xdg-utils is:
  Version: 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
Note that I am running LMDE, which may account for the differing version?

Anyhow, I see that you've got a statement in detectDE that sets DE=gnome if mate is detected, which is pretty much the same thing I did to fix my version. So it sounds like you've got this covered, and the only question is why did my mint install come with a broken version of xdg-settings, and can I expect a future update to fix this, or will I have to manually fix it with each update? :-(

In any case, thank you for your efforts and responses.