On Monday, 23 July 2018 16:58:41 BST Wols Lists wrote: > While I appreciate it's a damn sight more powerful than Windoze's > braindead file extension system, it feels to me like mimetypes are a > rogue chainsaw sometimes ... > > How do I find out what mimetypes are associated with an application? > Going the other way is a simple "System Settings" options, except that > (a) I don't have a clue what half these mimetypes are, and (b) I don't > fancy going through ALL of them one by one looking for the program in > question. Oh - and I searched the web which kindly pointed me to the > config file .local/share/applications/defaults.list - except it doesn't > exist ... > > All I want to do is find out what extensions Kate has tagged itself onto > - what it thinks it's going to do with a dot-iso I *do* not know!
Seeing it's Kate you're interested in, I assume you have much of the rest of plasma installed. In that case, in the control panel (sorry - System Settings) go to Applications, then File Associations. Put the program you're interested in in the search box, et - viola! -- Regards, Peter.
