On (11/22/11 01:50), Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: -~> On 2011-11-21 23:36, Philipp Überbacher wrote: -~> > So how is this stuff controlled these days? Those funky desktop files? -~> > gconf? dconf? Something else entirely? -~> -~> The default programs are kept in -~> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, according to fd.o "MIME -~> Actions spec". -~> -~> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec> -~> -~> All popular DEs - GNOME, Xfce, KDE - use this, and should respect -~> explicitly set defaults. -~> -~> On 2011-11-22 00:06, Leonid Isaev wrote: -~> > gconf, I think in gnome. In xfce (thunar) there is something like -~> > $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. They are all evil, however: -~> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfYBa1EHm4 (ShmooCon 2011: USB Autorun -~> attacks -~> > against Linux). -~> -~> Waitwaitwaitwait. How the *hell* does the existence of XDG autorun spec -~> automatically make all other XDG specs "evil"? Especially file-program -~> associations, which are completely unrelated? -~> -~> -~> -- -~> Mantas M.
Al right, evil might be too strong :) But still auto-associations means automatic thumbnailing in any decent file manager, like nautilus -- hence the above link. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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