Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:19:54 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2010-03-20 21:06, Andrew Winnenberg wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500
> >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC,
> >>> XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt,
> >>> gentoo or any of a dozen other file managers.
> >>>
> >>> There should be a freedesktop standard for file associations.
> >> I guess you're right. It would be nice to be able to set that sort of
> >> thing once, and then have all applications respect the choice, at least
> >> by default.
> >>
> >> Well, a quick search seems to indicate that some DEs already have this,
> >> e.g. Gnome, with its /etc/gnome/defaults.lst. I guess you want
> >> something that's DE independent.
> >>
> >> Celejar
> >
> >
> > I may be mistaken, but isn't that functionality provided by shared-mime-info?
> >
>
> But isn't it system-wide?
Yes, as the spec says:
"The MIME database does NOT store user preferences (such as a user's
preferred application for handling files of a particular type). It may
be used to store static information, such as that files of a certain
type may be viewed with a particular application."
Celejar
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