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.
