On Thursday, 15 de September de 2011 17.49.11, David Faure wrote:
> The most common case of "open this url in the associated application" being 
> already covered in QDesktopServices (by calling platform-specific
> executables), I wonder if there is a use case in Qt for "give me all the
> applications associated with this mimetype"?

Can I answer "no"?

Listing all applications for a given MIME type is useful for the file 
associations editor. I see little use for a generic application, other than 
allowing the user to choose a non-default application (like KDE's 
Open/Save/Cancel dialog being extended with Open With).

However, before we could list the applications for a MIME type, we need to be 
able to list applications in the first place, launch them and maybe even 
control them. This might be an interesting feature, but it is definitely not 
something we should rush now.

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