On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:

 |On 16/04/02 at 21:09 - Kingsly John said in public:
 |>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
 |>
 |> |When we right click on any file in ROX it shows the MIME type of that file.
 |> |In case of .pps file it shows it as text/plain however for .ppt files it
 |> |shows it application/vnd.ms-powerpoint. I wanted to know how to make rox
 |> |realise that .pps are not text/plain files. It I right click and 'Set Run
 |> |action' to open it in OpenOffice than all text files will be opened in
 |> |OpenOffice :-)
 |> |
 |> |Is that something to do with /etc/mime.types file. If .pps mime type is not
 |> |found there than ROX takes it by default as text/plain file ??
 |>
 |>/usr/share/Choices/MIME-info/Standard
 |
 |I tried adding the following to the Standard file :
 |
 |application_vnd.ms-powerpoint
 |        ext: pps ppt

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
        ext: pps ppt

 |Still when I right click in rox I get text/plain, instead of
 |application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ? However the puzzling thing is that even
 |without adding the above statement to Standard file .ppt files are
 |recognised as application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, but not .pps

Did you restart rox ??

I edited that file and added support for .rmd (raw modem) and it worked 
fine.

Kingsly



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