published by whitemice on Tue, 05/19/2015 - 07:12
Which application manages this type of file? How can I, by default, open files of type X with application Y? These questions float around in GNOME forums and mailing lists on a regular basis.
The answer is: gvfs-mime .
published by whitemice on Sun, 01/19/2014 - 00:00
On the screen you have a pointer - it points at thing! It is used to point at, select [highlight], drag, and numerous other things. The mouse pointer has been there and looked more-or-less the same for decades now; my pointer in GNOME Shell looks and works almost identically to the pointer I had on my GEOS desktop (1986). It has stayed the same because it works.
published by whitemice on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 00:00
A little recognized feature in GNOME is the that e-mail messages can be drag-n-dropped from GNOME's Evolution to other applications. When a message from Evolution is dropped into Nautilus the message will be saved to the corresponding folder as an mbox file. This is useful, but probably not optimal, for a desktop environment.
To optimize this behavior the gsettings command can be used to change the default format as a PDF.
