Re: [kde] Changing file association for all media files

On 28/11/2007, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
How to configure Amarok as the default for ALL audio formats? So that
I don't need go through all the formats in Kcontrol -> KDE Components
-> File Association -> Audio and manually choose Amarok for each one
individually? Same thing for VLC for ALL video formats. How?

Each application already registers which MIME types it can understand, however
the ordering can be changed, as you have discovered, through the control
center.

However, each application also states its "initial preference" in its .desktop
file.

I guess local modifications, i.e. applied through the control center, override
this then.

So you could make sure that you do not have any local overrides (stored in
file profilerc in your local kde config dir, see kde-config --path config)
and then change the initial preference for Amarok to something high enough.

The application desktop files are located under kde-config --path xdgdata-apps

Cheers,
Kevin

Thank you Kevin. I don't think that I was very clear in my question,
so I will rephrase it. How do I configure KDE to open every type of
audio file in Amarok?

As it stands now, I must click on MP3, and change it to Amarok, then
WAV and change it to Amarok, then ogg and change it to Amarok, and so
on for 10+ different filetypes. Is there not one fell swoop that will
change ALL the filetypes in Kcontrol -> KDE Components -> File
Association -> Audio to Amarok?

Dotan Cohen

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