[arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

[Leonid Isaev]

On (11/22/11 01:50), Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
-~> 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.

Al right, evil might be too strong :) But still auto-associations means
automatic thumbnailing in any decent file manager, like nautilus -- hence the
above link.

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