Re: file association quiestion

[Bill Moseley <moseley hank org>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:00:44AM -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> 
> > There's also /usr/share/applications/defaults.list which associates
> > programs with MIME types.  Per user overrides are possible in 
> > 
> >     $HOME/.local/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
> > 
> > What I'm not clear on is if /etc/mime.types and/or /etc/mailcap are
> > ever used.  Anyone understand and able to explain this process in
> > detail?
> 
> Neither of those files is used by Gnome.

Was that true in a previous version?  I see I'm overriding a few
file types on one of my machine with that file.  That machine is
running Gutsy.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51012


> Gnome and KDE have a shared system, defined on freedesktop.org:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec

Thanks for the pointer.

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