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Bug 536818 - Per-Mime app selection in Preferred Applications
Per-Mime app selection in Preferred Applications
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169670
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Preferred applications
unspecified
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-05 14:35 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2009-11-14 18:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Screenshot XP (111.27 KB, image/png)
2008-06-05 14:43 UTC, Michael Monreal 		Details

Description Michael Monreal 2008-06-05 14:35:25 UTC 
The "Preferred Applications" window lets you choose the default browser, email and multimedia app, terminal and accessibility stuff. However, this is not enough.

What we need is the possibility to map mimetype<->app for all known mime types. The GUI for this whould just be a "Mimetype|Application to use" list inside a "Advanced" tab.

As far as I can see apps can be set as the default for a given mime type in ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list but I don't really understand whi decides what the default is supposed to be if this file does not include the mime type...
Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2008-06-05 14:43:37 UTC 
Created attachment 112217 [details]
Screenshot XP

This is how XP solves the problem. I don't think we need to show both Extension and Filetype but should show the application currently set as default.

Bonus points for grouping mimetypes for Images/Videos/Audio and making it easy for the user to change multiple mime types at once (multi selection).
Comment 2 Jens Granseuer 2008-06-07 15:45:50 UTC 
Normally, mime relations are defined using desktop files.
Comment 3 Thomas Wood 2009-11-14 18:36:50 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169670 ***