On Thursday 07 June 2007 15:18:55 Darren Freeman wrote: > If we call LyX a Qt-only app, then we could do this the KDE way and > query the file association preferences, as used by Konqueror and others. > One day they will get Gnome and KDE integrated well enough to have one > using the preferences of the other and it won't bother Gnome people > either.
That exists already under a common umbrella (freedesktop.org): http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html -- José Abílio