On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know Gnome but I use some applications, like the mail-client/balsa. > It opens suitable applications for given mime types (in attachments). > The application invoked is read from /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > . > Unfortunately, that file is rebuild after each emerge of a related package. > E.g., having reinstalled media-gfx/gimp it places gimp at the front of the > list of > packages suitable for viewing a postscript file. > Currently I am only able to modify /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache by > changing > the order of coresponding applications. > > Is there a more elegant (persistent) way?
Edit $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache? It takes precedence over the system one. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
