"Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:17 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 6:46 AM, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora at camperquake.de> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:38:59 +0100, Mark wrote:
> >
> > > So what do you think of it?
> > > good idea? bad idea?
> >
> > Usually the programs installed register a list of extensions they are
> > able to handle. audacious seems to miss the m3u extension, this is
> > a bug. Please file in bugzilla.
> 
> Sure, thats a bug, but what if audacious wasn't installed?  How would
> a user know what to install?
> 
> Would be nice if a user tried to open a file that didn't have an
> application associated with it and up popped a list of applications
> that could be installed.  Would be even cooler if the you could select
> one to install, it installed, then opened it up for you.

It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information from
desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
"mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.