/home/QtPalmtop/etc/mime.types is the file that you need to modify if you want to associate a different application with a particular file extension in the file browser.  You must then reboot.  I tested this by commenting out the:
application/x-troff-me     me
line in the mime.types file and adding the me extension to:
text/plain     asc me txt c cc h hh cpp hpp
Sometimes I see files named, "read.me", which should be opened as a plain text file.  I found that I had to reboot to make this change active.  Perhaps there is some way to do this without rebooting, but I do not know what that is.