Have a way to dynamically change software associations at distribution level

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:40 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:02:43 +0200
> > David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Didier Roche wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > Right now, GNU/Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, from what I see
> > > > it seems to apply to Fedora, OpenSuse and Mandrake as well…) use a
> > > > static defaults.list file in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications shipped by
> > > > the distribution for associating a mimetype to a default
> > > > application.
> > > 
> > > defaults.list is a gnome-only file, it is not part of a freedesktop
> > > standard and not read by KDE.
> > 
> > It doesn't seem to be written by GIO anymore. It still reads
> > defaults.list for backwards compatibility reasons but I think it only
> > writes to mimeapps.list.
> > 
> 
> defaults.list is not meant to be written by session agents. It is is the
> system-wide defaults.

... for gnome.

> mimeapps.list is the per-user file that overrides it.

mimeapps.list can also be used at any level in XDG_DATA_DIRS,
for cross-desktop mime-apps associations.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).