Association between MIME types and applications

Cross Desktop Group

David Faure


            
          

Ryan Lortie


            
          

1.0.1

7 September 2014


Table of Contents

Introduction
File name and location
Adding/removing associations
Default Application

Introduction

The freedesktop.org Shared MIME database provides a single way to store static information about MIME types and rules for determining a type.

The freedesktop.org Desktop Entry specification allows applications to announce which MIME types they support.

This specification solves the remaining issues: which application should open a file by default, how to let the user change the default application, and how to let the user add or remove associations between applications and mimetypes.