MIME and .desktop files 960

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:31:18 -0700, NUPUL

Not really; .desktop files provide an icon on the desktop, or the menu, that, when clicked, opens a specific application. From the opened app, you can choose to open a particular file. You can choose to buttociate a specific app with a file mime type, so that app is always called to open that mime type, but it has nothing to do with the .desktop file.

KDE has certain defaults that it uses, but you have the choice to change them to whatever you prefer.

Above.

They only serve a similar purpose, in your head, because you are confused. For the rest of us, they are different. ;-)

Obviously text editors are buttociated with text files. It wouldn't make much sense to buttociate text files with a video player. Likewise a video would have a hard time playing in a text editor, or an archiver, so it is buttociated with video players. Archive files are buttociated with archivers, and graphics files are buttociated with graphics apps. Your question is silly.

Already answered above.

Beats the hell out of me. Never found a need for any of them in the last six years. I would suppose that you would use the "update" commands if you had some reason to belive that the databases were not up to date. I only suppose that, because the commands, themselves, seem to be self-explanatory.

RTFM, is the standard answer, when it comes to clarifying issues, and dispelling doubts. However, understanding what you read is an implied requisite.

A good place for you to start is the red and white "life-saver", with the green center, icon that you'll find on your kicker panel. That's the SUSE Help Center.

-- imotgm "Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a month or two, but never lost."