Setting different default applications for different Desktop Environment

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Published on 2012-09-01T12:29:48Z Indexed on 2012/10/01 3:51 UTC
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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with default Unity interface. I installed later the KDE desktop, XFCE, LXDE, gnome-shell and Cinnamon.

The KDE comes with different default applications than Unity, such as

kwrite for text editing,
konsole as virtual terminal,
kfontview for font viewing and installing,
dolphin as File browser etc.

Other DE come with some other default applications.

The problem arises when you want to open a file such as a text file, with which can both be opened by gedit and kwrite, I want to use kwrite on KDE and gedit on Unity or Gnome. But, there is no way to set like this. I can set default application for text file by changing respective settings in both KDE and Unity, but It become default for both DE.

For example, If I set kfontviewer as default font viewing application in KDE, it also opens fonts when I am in Unity or Gnome and vice versa. This is a problem because, loading other DE's program takes long time than the default one for the used DE.

My question is: Can I use different default applications for different DE? How?

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