>I don't know the logic of the underlying code, but look in the 
>installed d3lphin.desktop file. You'll find two keys: MimeType and 
>InitialPreference. Experiment with commenting out one or both and 
>see how that affects your usage. You might need to restart Trinity 
>or delete your tdesycoca cache files. Probably the best experiment 
>is with a temporary fresh profile. That way no profilerc changes 
>will affect anything.
>
>I don't believe a distro-specific patch should be necessary. We 
>should patch the behavior for everybody. Dolphin should not 
>override anything until the user explicity starts doing so in the 
>file association configurations.

By the way,please share the exact steps you used that I can 
duplicate that prompted you to start this discussion. :)

I'd like to test this further with other apps too.

Darrell