The year of the Linux Desktop was last year ;)

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1. Martin Creutziger (MMx) 24/08/2015 at 19:39

   Too bad everybody missed that.

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2. Vladimir Pantelic 24/08/2015 at 19:46

   too bad that does not work here. I added x-eagle as per your screenshot and "associated" .brd and .sch with it, the files were opened in geda and that failed of course... your turn

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3. Matthias Welwarsky 24/08/2015 at 19:56

   Conflicting mime types?

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4. Vladimir Pantelic 24/08/2015 at 20:02

   Matthias Welwarsky as I said in the other post, assume I am a standard user. so I have no idea what you are talking about. what is a mimey type? where in the desktop control panel do I see/edit/add mime types? where does the "File Associations" dialog mention mime types? all I see it mention are "Find file type or filename pattern"  and I see a list of file extensions for the known file types. 

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5. Vladimir Pantelic 24/08/2015 at 20:03

   I know that I have a conflicting/non-existing mime type issue, but I know that because I am not a typical desktop user. not one of the 90%

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6. Matthias Welwarsky 24/08/2015 at 20:22

   Vladimir Pantelic Well sadly, Eugly doesn't integrate with XDG properly, by not supplying the necessary metadata, so as a "typical desktop user" (which no Eagle user actually is, not even on Windows), you're now fucked. Go file a complaint with Cadsoft. You, however, complained that KDE would not let you change "file associations", and I demonstrated it does so quite nicely.

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7. Vladimir Pantelic 24/08/2015 at 20:23

   that's the answer I expected. I rest my case.

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8. Vladimir Pantelic 24/08/2015 at 20:25

   for the record, "KDE does not let a user associate files with a certain extension with an app of the users choosing, at least not using the Configure Desktop UI". 

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9. Matthias Welwarsky 24/08/2015 at 21:12

   Nice trolling. But ineffective. What you (probably?) want could not be done by a "typical user" anyway, at least not while you picture him to be someone so technology-averse that he's not able/willing to look at the problem in a classical, scientific way instead of a purely idealized, "romantic" fashion. The whole "typical user" problem was solved long ago by adding metadata to software packages, be they in .cab, .rpm, .deb, .apk or .ipk form, and by creating standards like XDG to make this packaging process convenient for software vendors across platforms. But what you describe is not a "typical user" problem, and the solution you picture is a sugar coated power-user feature for fixing the negligent laziness of a  vendor who couldn't be arsed to fix his broken mess.

   And anyway, where's Chromecast for AVP?

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