From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mimeinfo cache
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 03:29:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc81KBWpO3R8PwaxT7FKWzgoNnvrDg_xW3p_omQrT_yd7Nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336119093.14058.1@numa-i>
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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2012-05-04 8:11 [gentoo-user] Gnome mimeinfo cache Helmut Jarausch
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