[nzlug] File associations in Linux

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 2:42:15 pm Robin Sheat wrote:
> Is there a cross-distro standard for user file associations that I can hook
> into?

I believe this is less of a distro issue, but rather an issue of the desktop 
(KDE, Gnome, ...). Some distros may have an abstraction layer to associate 
file types with applications throughout the desktop environments.

Hope that helps with searching,

Guy

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