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Luca Dionisi luca.dionisi at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 12:12:24 EEST 2006


> On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:06, nupul kukreja wrote:
> > I went through the freedesktop specs on MIME. I'd like to know if
> > there is any way by which I can query the database to know which
> > application is to be used for a specific MIME type? I did check out
> > the  "current Implementors" section and even downloaded the
> > corresponding apps, but none of them seem to work. In general, is
> > there any way to query the MIME database to know which application is
> > suitable for a specific MIME type? esp in KDE

 - go in /usr/share/applications
 - in mimeinfo.cache search for your mime-type
 - in the same dir look into the appropriate file *.desktop

Is this of any help or are you asking for something different?

--Luca



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