[X4U] Program association settings in OS X

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 4/25/05 11:52 PM, Brett Conlon <brett_conlon at sonymusic.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > The file "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist" in your Users Preferences folder
> > holds some information of this nature but it looks too complicated to play
> > with.
> > 
> > I think what you're looking for is like what can be found in OS9 under the
> > "File Exchange" Control Panel, correct?
> > 
> > I'd be curious to know where all this is kept now, too?
> 
> It is not kept in a place that is user-accessible by any of OS X's built-in
> applications. There are third-party programs that can do this, however. I
> use RCDefaultApp by Carl Lindberg. Check http://www.versiontracker.com for
> that or others.
> 
> This is one of those annoying problems of OS X that is political in nature
> instead of technical.
> 
> Eddie Hargreaves

Apple is stupid not to include a system prefs panel with Internet
Config's functionality. There's no damn good reason not to - simple as
that. They're making things unnecessarily confusing for new users.

As for IC replacements under X - I like MisFox
<http://www.clauss-net.de/misfox/misfox.html> developed by iCab's
author.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
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