Chapter 10. The GNOME Control Center
GNOME Mime Types
The GNOME Mime Types Capplet allows you to determine how you
wish to handle certain file types, or Mime types. Mime stands for
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions and was originally developed
to allow email to carry various forms of data. In GNOME you can
define certain Mime types to be handled in any manner you wish. For
example, if you use .sgml files frequently and you wish to always use
Emacs to edit them you can configure the .sgml Mime type to always
be handled by Emacs. This means that any program that wishes to
launch the mime type for you will bring up Emacs. This includes
double clicking on the file type in the GNOME File Manager.
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