Tweaking system-wide file associations

[Rich Winkel]

According to Philip Rodrigues:
> Rich Winkel wrote:
> > I see various approaches to do this, all different, mentioned in the
> > mailing
> > list archives but none of them quite seem to work.  My most recent
> > iteration was to copy the *.desktop files from ~/.kde/applnk to
> > /usr/local/share/applications (this is on freebsd).  After doing this,
> > kde no longer knew how to open the "Home" icon on my desktop!
> > 
> > Could someone tell me, what is the correct way?
> > Shouldn't this be listed in the system administration faq?
> 
> See
> http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/userguide/kde-for-administrators.html
> 
> I think you want to copy .desktop files from ~/.kde/share/mimelnk
> to /usr/local/share/mimelnk

Thanks for the reply, but I think this page is out of date.  It refers to
a nonexistent $HOME/.kde/share/config/profilerc.  I also tried editing
/usr/local/share/applnk/Office/xpdf.desktop
for instance, and inserting 
InitialPreference=9
without any change in behavior.

Help!

Thanks!!!

Rich

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