defaults.list or mimeapps.list?

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 21 January 2014 11:01:17 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> > I'm finding a lot of conflicting information. Which to use? I'm using
> > mimeapps.list currently, I was certain defaults.list was the
> > deprecated one but I need an official word on this.
> 
> See "Default application ordering" on
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec/
> 
> In effect, its a bit implementation specific... gnome uses defaults.list,
> kde uses a mixture of InitialPreference= key and mimeapps.list

This is a strange way of presenting it. The same mixture exists everywhere.

The environment defaults are environment-specific, using defaults.list in 
Gnome and InitialPreference= in KDE.

On top of that, mimeapps.list is standard, and can be used at the system level 
(/usr/share) by ISVs or at the user-level to store user-specific overrides.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5