I was wondering if it would be possible to do the same kind of stuff on a Linux XBoard install as we do now with WinBoard: associate file types with some specific XBoard command, so that clicking a file of that type would automatically start up an XBoard in the required mode. And of course it wold be nice if the files of those types would be reresented by an icon advertizing their association with XBoard, rather than as a general text document.
In particular, *.pgn files could get a chess-board icon, and clicking them should issue a command xboard -ncp -lgf $1 (perhaps setting some other options as well), where $1 is the clicked file, so that XBoard is started in game-viewer mode on the file by ust clicking the latter. Similarly, *.fen files should issue xboard -ncp -lpf $1 and they could have the same icon (like in WB). For a tournament file (*.trn). the required command would be xboard -mm -tf $1 to make XBoard start up in match mode according to the tourney specs in the tournament file. In WinBoard this works realy great now, and I did design a new icon for the *.trn files there. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
