Default Program | File Association

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:21 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> After discussion with Alexander on IRC we came to the following adjustement:
> 
> * being able to add an application to a mimetype in defaults.list even if the application
> .desktop file does not mention this mimetype. This removes the need for making local
> copies of desktop files.
> 
> * being able to remove associations, in the defaults.list file, using a separate group like this:
> [Removed Associations]
> image/x-xwindowdump=kview.desktop;    
> 
> This way the app-mime association list is fully editable (you can add and remove),
> and no duplication of system settings is done (so if the sysadmin updates his higher-level
> defaults.list you'll still get those changes, except for the associations that have been
> explicitely removed this way).

This sounds very good to me. I'll implement it in gio immediately!