I would like to add miro to the default application GUI in system settings/default applications. I added ;miro.desktop
next to all rhythmbox.desktop entries eventually discovering if it was not added to audio/x-vorbis+ogg=rhythmbox.desktop
as audio/x-vorbis+ogg=rhythmbox.desktop;miro.desktop
it would not appear in the system settings/default applications drop down list for audio.
I can find default.list
in either
/etc/gnome/defaults.list
or/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
Modifying either gives me the same results.
Further reading and i found that GNOME splits the settings for default application in system-wide and user specific settings.
- System wide application assignments can be found in
/etc/gnome/defaults.list
. - User specific in
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
.
So i understand that if i right click/open with/set as default it will make changes to my ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
and will be associated with that user. I suppose i could even create a defaults.list in ~/.local/share/applications/
but since both changes made in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
and /etc/gnome/defaults.list
are system wide i'm not sure which is the correct way. What is the difference between the two and which is the correct list to modify?