Where did "Open with" (user defined command) go?

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Published on 2012-06-01T20:46:01Z Indexed on 2012/06/01 22:50 UTC
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I'm now using Ubuntu 12.04.

In earlier versions you could associate a filetype with a specific command (e.g. self-compiled binary) by selecting "Open with" in the file's properties and select the command by providing the file path manually if it wasn't already in the list of applications.

Is this possibility gone?

The only way I found now is to create .desktop files and edit the mimetypes via an text editor.

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