QGIS hijacks file type icons

[Christianus Pistorius]

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
qgis 2.8.6+dfsg-1build1
kwin 5.5.5-0ubuntu1

QGIS changes the default file type icons e.g. for JPEG, TIF and possibly a few others (whatever file types QGIS can open, I suppose) to its own .qgs file type icon. In current Kubuntu, manually changing the file type icons back to the system's default through the file type editor proved ineffective when I tried it multiple times – it always gets reset to what QGIS specifies. This doesn't break QGIS's operability, it's just a minor annoyance as it feels like somewhat of an overreach.

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

QGIS registers those file types because its supports JPEG compress raster data for *.{jpg,jpeg} & GEOTiff for *.tif{,f}.