I would suggest adding a 'Add all with no association' button in the Associations options page.
The behaviour would be to add associations to Xnview to all extensions which hasnt an existing key (i.e if .gif key doesnt exist, assoc it), or if it is just a blank (i.e no subkeys and no values) key.
'Add all with no assoc' in the Association page
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