On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:00:44AM -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > 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. Was that true in a previous version? I see I'm overriding a few file types on one of my machine with that file. That machine is running Gutsy. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51012 > Gnome and KDE have a shared system, defined on freedesktop.org: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec Thanks for the pointer. -- Bill Moseley moseley@xxxxxxxx Sent from my iMutt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
