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Re: [gcmd-dev] mimetype of .avi
From: |
Piotr Eljasiak |
Subject: |
Re: [gcmd-dev] mimetype of .avi |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:02:03 +0200 |
> I wanted to open avi files with avidemux by default. The mimetype is reported
> (both from gcmd and nautilus) as video/x-msvideo.
>
> So i hacked a line in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache which
> contains the 'default' applications:
>
> video/x-msvideo=avidemux.desktop;mplayer.desktop;totem.desktop;
>
> but it didn't work. By case i found out that this one works:
>
> video/x-avi=avidemux.desktop;mplayer.desktop;totem.desktop;
>
>
> btw. The file mimerapps.list seems to take no effect at all anymore. Maybe
> it's obsolete now.
MIME support is totally broken now. It's yet another-thing-to-be-fixed
(TM), sigh...