On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/02/14 04:50, Rex Dieter wrote: >> David Faure wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 21 January 2014 11:01:17 Rex Dieter wrote: >>>> Jerome Leclanche wrote: >>>>> I'm finding a lot of conflicting information. Which to use? I'm using >>>>> mimeapps.list currently, I was certain defaults.list was the >>>>> deprecated one but I need an official word on this. >>>> See "Default application ordering" on >>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec/ >>>> >>>> In effect, its a bit implementation specific... gnome uses defaults.list, >>>> kde uses a mixture of InitialPreference= key and mimeapps.list >>> This is a strange way of presenting it. The same mixture exists >>> everywhere. >>> >>> The environment defaults are environment-specific, using defaults.list in >>> Gnome and InitialPreference= in KDE. >>> >>> On top of that, mimeapps.list is standard, and can be used at the system >>> level (/usr/share) by ISVs >> In my experience, stuff set in mimeapps.list in /usr/share isn't used by >> gnome. Should I go retest that? >> >> -- Rex >> >> > > I'm sure it's used by GNOME and Xfce. > > Personally I always thought that defaults.list was the global file, > because that's what the Debian GNOME Team is using > to set their default applications for the users > And that mimeapps.list in user's own local directory was to override > that global defaults.list > I see now I was wrong, and that mimeapps.list can also be used globally > and that Debian still using defaults.list is just for historical reasons > > Xfce's utilities modify mimeapps.list at users directory when defining > preferred applications / file associations > I would expect GNOME to do same thing thesedays > > So heck, just to drop the confusion, could the defaults.list be declared > obsolete somewhere so that the confusion stops?
Christ please yes. J. Leclanche > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
