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an ugly hack to be able to select default applications in linux in a better way

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Select Default Application

A very simple application that lets you define default applications on Linux in a sane way.

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How it works

Basically it just loads all installed applications by reading their .desktop files, reads the MimeType fields to see what it supports, and updates ~/.config/mimeapps.list with what the user wants.

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