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    From Borden@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 23 08:10:01 2022
    KOrganizer somehow muscled its way to being the default program for all text files. Is there a way to make Kate the default program without having to change every single file association manually?

    For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program for all supported file types. Does something similar exist for KDE?

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  • From local10@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 23 19:30:01 2022
    KOrganizer somehow muscled its way to being the default program for all text files. Is there
    a way to make Kate the default program without having to  change every single file
    association manually?


    Do you have "systemsettings" package installed? Open the systemsetting app > Applications > File Associations and from then you can assign apps to handle several file extensions at once.


    For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program
    for all supported file types. Does something similar exist for KDE?

    You could try adding "*.*" as a pattern (without quotes) to one of the known file types and see how well it works. Personally I'm not sure there's a lot of sense opening, say, mp3 files with kwrite. :)

    Regards,

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  • From Alex DEKKER@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 25 17:30:01 2022
    On 23/07/2022 18:22, local10 wrote:

    For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program
    for all supported file types. Does something similar exist for KDE?
    You could try adding "*.*" as a pattern (without quotes) to one of the known file types and see how well it works. Personally I'm not sure there's a lot of sense opening, say, mp3 files with kwrite. :)

    Me neither, but the OP did say "all supported filetypes" not "all
    filetypes".

    alexd

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  • From Alex DEKKER@21:1/5 to Borden on Tue Jul 26 12:00:01 2022
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    On 26/07/2022 00:46, Borden wrote:
    25 Jul 2022, 10:59 [email protected]:


    Me neither, but the OP did say "all supported filetypes" not "all filetypes".

    alexd

    Since it's too much to ask software to self-report what files it supports, is there a way to find out, quickly, which file types have KOrganizer as its primary handler and then I can probably script a way to change it to Kate?


    I think you meant to reply to the list, not to me.


    Anyway, there's probably an xdg-* command that does this "properly", but


    grep korganiz |/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache|


    seems to return a plausible-looking list.

    alexd

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    <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Me neither, but the OP did say "all supported filetypes" not "all filetypes".

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  • From Borden@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 20:10:01 2022
    26 Jul 2022, 05:51 by [email protected]:

    I think you meant to reply to the list, not to me.


    My apologies. I'm still learning how to Internet.




    Anyway, there's probably an xdg-* command that does this "properly", but


    grep korganiz  > /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache


    seems to return a plausible-looking list.


    Thanks. Time to break out Python. Any edits I make shoud go into ~/.config/mimeapps.list, correct?

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