Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
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?
--Drew
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