Importing freedesktop file associations into various file managers

I love light FMs that don't rely on HAL (or rather, don't rely on it AND don't make me mess around with XML files to get them working). But file associations in most of them are a pain.
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- So does tuxcmd, as far as I can tell
- Emelfm2 comes with assocations, but doesn't pay attention to what you have installed
- XFE is probably the best, it lets you associate various broad types of files (audio, video, etc.) with an application... But unusual filetypes still need to be associated manually.
My thought is: the .desktop files are already there, in /usr/share/applications. Can I import associations from those?
ROX I already know can do that, albeit in a kind of crippled fashion, with perl-mime-info. That doesn't seem to work for the other three though.
If I had to guess, I'd say XFE didn't support importing associations, since it makes things the least painful. Tuxcmd I'm not sure about, I'd think it would given that it starts out with all of two associations, generic file and generic directory...
Emelfm2 on the other hand appears to have some way of importing .desktop file info. However, the website is down and Google's cached version won't load, so that's all I know.
Does anyone know more about dealing with .desktop files in the above FMs?

You could take a look at mimeo (for opening files) and mimeman (for managing associations).
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