Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
File associations are irrelevant for drag 'n drop of document/file icons on an app's icon. That much is true for most operating systems.

I don't understand. This is what I need to do to get a document to be droppable onto an app:


OS X: I need to add entries to the CFBundleDocumentTypes
      section of the info.plist file, noting the file's
      extension and type code.
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/LaunchServicesConcepts/LSCConcepts/chapter_2_section_4.html>

Win:  I need to add an entry to the registry identifying
      a given file extension with a given app.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/fileassociations/fileassoc.asp>

Linux: Sadly varies unnecessarily between window managers,
       but most require a MIME entry into a database.

By what other mechanisms can one associate a file type with an application that can open it?

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