defaults.list or mimeapps.list?

[Samuli Suominen]

On 02/03/14 13:29, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 06 February 2014 08:10:18 Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> So heck, just to drop the confusion, could the defaults.list be declared
>> obsolete somewhere so that the confusion stops?
> It depends if you want the app order to affect only gnome (-> defaults.list) 
> or all desktop environments (-> mimeapps.list).

gnome has used mimeapps.list (since that's what glib uses) for a long
time now
and that's not the way of setting them desktop specific, setting
XDG_DATA_DIRS=
to include /usr/share/gnome in which the desktop specific .list is,
from eg. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/99-gnome, is

>
> I think there's a use case for both, so I wouldn't declare defaults.list 
> obsolete.
>

nope