Re: Where are the applications in 'Open with other application" coming from?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:06 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a short question about the long list appearing in
> 
> right-click on file > Open with > Open with other application
> 
> is coming from? I guess, a part is coming from what was saved
> in /usr/share/applications/*.applications. And the rest? Seems to be the
> list of GNOME "products". Is it?

Its all from /usr/share/applications/*.desktop. Matched on the MimeType=
line in those files.

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