On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > >> 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? --Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

