Re: How to register a application being in Nautilus a 'plain text editor' or 'XML editor'?

[Magnus Therning <magnus therning org>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alexander M. Batishchev
<abatishchev godfather net ru> wrote:
> How can I do this programmatically while my application is installing? In make file I guess.

First of all you really, really shouldn't!  Choosing the default
application for a file type should be left to the user.

I believe that if you place a .desktop file in a location like
/usr/share/applications/ (probably distro specific) and it includes a
MimeType entry, then your application will be entered into the list of
applications that the user can choose from in the properties dialogue.

/M

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