* Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mimeinfo cache
@ 2012-05-04 8:29 99% ` Canek Peláez Valdés
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From: Canek Peláez Valdés @ 2012-05-04 8:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know Gnome but I use some applications, like the mail-client/balsa.
> It opens suitable applications for given mime types (in attachments).
> The application invoked is read from /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
> .
> Unfortunately, that file is rebuild after each emerge of a related package.
> E.g., having reinstalled media-gfx/gimp it places gimp at the front of the
> list of
> packages suitable for viewing a postscript file.
> Currently I am only able to modify /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache by
> changing
> the order of coresponding applications.
>
> Is there a more elegant (persistent) way?
Edit $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache? It takes
precedence over the system one.
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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