On Friday 14 April 2006 00:44, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:07 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
In case you are referring to xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package, it does
whatever the running desktop's utility does :)
I am referring to that, yes. But what does it do, if one is
On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:06, nupul kukreja wrote:
I went through the freedesktop specs on MIME. I'd like to know if
there is any way by which I can query the database to know which
application is to be used for a specific MIME type? I did check out
the current Implementors section and
On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:06, nupul kukreja wrote:
I went through the freedesktop specs on MIME. I'd like to know if
there is any way by which I can query the database to know which
application is to be used for a specific MIME type? I did check out
the current Implementors section
- go in /usr/share/applications
- in mimeinfo.cache search for your mime-type
- in the same dir look into the appropriate file *.desktop
Well Luca thanks a millionyup it did help me solve my doubt...but
got another one ;) if a new application is installed, and has its own
file
On Thursday 13 April 2006 11:12, Luca Dionisi wrote:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:06, nupul kukreja wrote:
I went through the freedesktop specs on MIME. I'd like to know if
there is any way by which I can query the database to know which
application is to be used for a specific MIME
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:14:19 +0530, nupul kukreja wrote:
Well Luca thanks a millionyup it did help me solve my doubt...
I'm afraid that won't work. Multiple applications can handle the same file
types, and then the user can choose between them in their file manager or
select a default.
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