Have a way to dynamically change software associations at distribution level

[PCMan]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Didier Roche<didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Well… I think you misread the beginning of this thread:
> - mimeinfo.cache is specific to GNOME, so no chance ATM that other
> desktop environments changes their behaviors to drop their own cache
> system;
I don't think this is gnome-specific. It's documented in "Desktop
Entry" freedesktop.org spec.
FYI: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html
Besides, it's also used and well-supported by XFCE and LXDE.
So, it doesn't seem to be specific to gnome.