Re: Re: MIME types, again ("Nautilus" ain't the answer)

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:54 +0100, Sandro Dentella wrote:
>> The correct way tero do it as of Gnome 2.8 is to right click on a file,
>> e.g. a pdf file, select Properties, then "Open With", and then select
>> the program there, or add a new one.
>
>
>That's not really what I would call a clean way to set defaults. But as
>pointed out to me a couple of weeks ago by  Michael Mauch:
>
I don't see what you mean, you just select the default application via a
radio button, it's an awful lot more simple than hand-hacking .desktop
files.

>I don't know how I should do, should I want to create *personal* (rather than
>system) default

Per-user .desktop files go in ~/.local/share/applications

>, but is at least practical for little systems and worked
>very well for me. Still I couldn't understand where to find specs on all the
>fields I was supposed to fill in, but googleing a bit I could survive...
>
The specs are somewhere on www.freedesktop.org, look for the desktop
file specification

Crispin



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