Setting default applications w/out gnome-control-center

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:12 -0500, Mumia W. wrote:
> but from the user-interface 
> point of view, they are pretty much the same thing.

Well, I guess one can be of different opinion in this regard. I already
said that I find gconf much easier (and actually pretty neat for
not-so-important options). That would be:

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 20:05 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> gconf keys that control application behavior and that are therefore of
> interest to users usually tell you their valid values, and the purposes
> of these values, when you select them -- descriptions are at the bottom
> of the window.