Bug#282281: kde: KDE applications take over Gnome file types

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le dimanche 21 novembre 2004 à 04:10 +0100, tmb@lumo.com a écrit :

> Well, how does KDE know what applications to give priority to? 

Hi,

I'm curious to know that too.

> Is that 
> indicated in the list?  

Which list ?


> This seems like a level of complexity that may 
> be acceptable to the developers of KDE, but it strikes me as something 
> that isn't good for Gnome.

Who said that something is not good for GNOME ? And what's not good for
GNOME, could you provide details on what you are describing ? 


> Well, the notion of a single global list that lists all applications 
> willing to handle a MIME type seems like a bad idea to me.  A Gnome user 
> should just not be offered a KDE application as a viable choice in any 
> standard menu because KDE applications just don't run well enough under 
> Gnome yet.  But that's just my opinion...

1- If you don't want to use KDE applications don't install them, the
mimesystem list the installed applicationsn, that seems to be right (if
the app has been installed that's probably because somebody wants to use
it, isn't it ?)
2- KDE applications work fine under GNOME

The mimesystem works in this way:

1- it uses the "MimeType=..." entries
in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
2- for a given mimetype you get a list of applications managing it
3- if you don't specify a default for a mimetype it uses the alphabetic
order

So now, the default application for a mimetype can be changed in a
defaults.list file .. perhaps we should make a gnomish version of this
file to installe with the GNOME meta packages. You can also set a
default handler for a mimetype by right clicking on a file with this
mimetype, properties, open with and select the app.



Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher