Hi, All the programs, mimeo, xdg-open are oriented towards using mime info to open application. My problem is different. What I want is a way to tell "my" desktop environment or whatever to use which applications. The main issue is as follows. Every program that gets installed can do anything to the mimeinfo.list file. Sometimes, it will also change the xdg-open values. There are multiple systems with multiple standards. We cannot do much about that. However, what we can do is, we can make it easy to create an interface to program that. My suggestions is as follows. All file associations would be stored in a XML based file. There will be other details in it. But the main details is as follows 1. mime-type 2. associated applications wuth priority starting from 1. Why exactly one, will be clear later. Now whenever a new package is installed. It will contain an XML file containing description of the mimetype in the same manner. When the package is installed, the file will be transferred to a folder. The main file which contains the descriptions of the mime type will be somewhere else. This folder will contain the mime files which have not yet been incorportated into the main file. Now, a program would run which will take this folder and the original file as the default arguments and then update the file types. If there is a conflict, especially if the priority of the application for the mime type is already taken, then there can be a ncurses based resolution window, letting window resolve the conflict (modeled on the file association selectors in Windows applications). The priority in the package files can be -1 if the file wants to go to the last priority if possible. (like the nice factor of the processes) But no one can occupy the priority zero. Suppose a user opens an app using open with command and then checks the box, then automatically an entry is created in the folder with priority zero and then it is updated. This way, automatic software will never trump the user set defaults under any circumstances and the conflict management would prevent the irritation at the file open time. I am sure people are more careful during install than they are during file opening. Now the final XML file is created. This file can be then modified into whatever is demanded by any DE etc etc. What do you think? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Vinay Badwaik Electronics and Communication Engineering VNIT, INDIA - On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:45 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since mimeo also supports file uris now, there is no need to change > this package anymore.
