Re: file association quiestion

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 07:52 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:46:52AM -0400, yitzle wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <v tolstov selfip ru> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > I have some question default program to open some files likes
> > > jpeg,jpg,png,bmp. I'm using eog and gimp. After installing gimp - all
> > > this files opens in gimp by default. How can i change this behavior ?
> > > (this files types is for example, also i want to change default
> > > application to plain/text files and other..).
> > > Does gnome provide this feature or exists some gtk programms?...
> > > --
> > > Vasiliy G Tolstov <v tolstov selfip ru>
> > > Selfip.Ru
> > >
> > 
> > Right click on the file, select Properties and go to the Open With
> > tab. Select the desired application you wish to open it with.
> 
> Does that work for just the file extension, just the file itself, or
> for all files of that MIME type?

All files of that MIME type.

> There's also /usr/share/applications/defaults.list which associates
> programs with MIME types.  Per user overrides are possible in 
> 
>     $HOME/.local/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
> 
> What I'm not clear on is if /etc/mime.types and/or /etc/mailcap are
> ever used.  Anyone understand and able to explain this process in
> detail?

Neither of those files is used by Gnome.  Gnome and KDE have
a shared system, defined on freedesktop.org:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec

--
Shaun