Re: [gcmd-dev] mimetype of .avi

[Piotr Eljasiak]

> 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...