Association between MIME types and applications
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## Association between MIME types and applications

### Cross Desktop Group

### David Faure

`<faure@kde.org>`

### Ryan Lortie

`<desrt@gnome.org>`

1.0.1

7 September 2014

## 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.

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