Have a way to dynamically change software associations at distribution level

[Didier Roche]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM, David Faure<faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>> Prefixing with the
>> desktop name is fully backwards compat with deployed file formats, and
>> needs no extra files, which is why I like it.
>
> And yet it has exactly the drawbacks you mentionned before in the same email,
> about not abusing the mimetype system ;-)
>
> In which file exactly would you use a fake mimetypename like KDE-text/plain?
> I certainly don't think this should appear in mimeapps.list nor in desktop
> files, right?
> So this is only for mimeinfo.cache, or am I missing something?

I think that Alexander was talking about building the cache with the
prefix to not abuse to read desktop file again and don't add any new
mimetype name or did I misunderstand?

>
> About a better name than DesignedFor... UseByDefaultIn?

or SuitedIn?