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really missing a gui for setting file associations in 2026?
Doesn't cosmic files already support this feature?
Right-click -> Show details -> Open with
sure, but only for that one event, it doesn't let you persist the preference from there
I found this completely maddening when I had a folder full of random videos with various codecs. I had a video player installed that could handle all of them but half of them would open in one video player, a few in another and the rest tried to open in a web browser and failed.
Damn, I dont even know how to do this without KDE XD
Even rox-filer from 1999 had an easy way to do this!