Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:58:37 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:22:51 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:43:15 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26/11/11 21:18, Camaleón wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Anyway, try this:
>>>>
>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/82652/file-association-to-unlisted-application
>>>>
>>>> It basically says that you have to append a trailing "%U" at
>>>> "/usr/share/ applications/freemind.deskop" file, at the "Exec"
>>>> stanza, that is:
>>>>
>>>> ***
>>>> Exec=/usr/bin/freemind %U ***
>>>>
>>>> Now the application should be listed at the "Open with..." menu so
>>>> you can now set it as the default for that kind of file types.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Actually it is incomplete - you need to also (or maybe only) edit the
>>> setting in ~/.local/share/applications/freemind.desktop
>> 
>> Hum... It worked for me by just editing the suggested file (and I even
>> don't have Freemind installed at all).
> 
> 
> That's because the .desktop file in ~/.local will override the default
> in /usr

Sure, that's why the proposed solution it simply works (the 
"~/.local/share/applications/freemind.desktop" does not exist unless the 
user had tried to do the file association before and by doing so the local 
file is generated).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón