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Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
Hello Jaroslaw

Where exactly is the file located on the file system?

Mark.
> Mark Nelson wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> I want to change a couple of the KDE helper applications that are used
>> to view certain types of file.  For example our users want to use gv
>> instead of the standard kde postscript viewer.  I know how to do this
>> for an individual account, what I need to do is to change the system
>> default. I have looked and looked but can't find out how to do it.
> 
> 
> Creating a desktop file alike:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=sthg
> Exec=sthg %u
> Terminal=0
> Type=Application
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Categories=Application;sthg;
> MimeType=some-mime-type
> InitialPreference=X
> 
> Where X > preference for the original app handling "some-mime-type"
> 
> then running desktop-file-install
> 
> shall do it for KDE, although I'm not sure that would work
> for GNOME (well application will be added to menus/list of handlers
> for given mime-type but I'm not sure whether InitialPreference
> key will be taken into account ..)
> 
> Jarek
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