On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 23:00 +0000, John Kirkilis wrote:
After much searching and various attempts, I haven’t come across a standard way to specify that Inkscape is the preferred editor for SVG files.
RedHat is a FreeDesktop.org desktop, which means it follows the FDO specs and so does inkscape.
In the directory /usr/share/applications you should see amny desktop files. Each desktop file can specify a list of MimeTypes for which that application can be opened. The default is stored in the mime type cache and a local version can be saved in ~/.config/ so each user can have a different association.
See details here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html
I also can’t get it to show up as an option in the Open With… context menu choice in Win7 64-bit.
Windows has always stored their associations in the registry. file extensions were given a hkey uuid and then linked from there with multiple sub entries indicating multiple programs or ways to open the program with that file (for instance adding flags)
This information was gathered from windows 98 and was correct as far as windows xp. Up to date versions of windows may have changed their layout.
Martin,