On 2010-03-20 21:06, Andrew Winnenberg wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
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For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC,
XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt,
gentoo or any of a dozen other file managers.
There should be a freedesktop standard for file associations.
I guess you're right. It would be nice to be able to set that sort of
thing once, and then have all applications respect the choice, at least
by default.
Well, a quick search seems to indicate that some DEs already have this,
e.g. Gnome, with its /etc/gnome/defaults.lst. I guess you want
something that's DE independent.
Celejar
I may be mistaken, but isn't that functionality provided by shared-mime-info?
But isn't it system-wide?
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