Am Freitag, den 08.09.2006, 10:56 -0400 schrieb Joshua Smith: [..] > What I think I know: > > A) I need to convince the desktop that files ending in .mesonjar are > mime type application/x-meson Shared MIME-info Database http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/
If you want to support older GNOME systems (<= 2.4) too, then you need to support the gnome-mime-data package too: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-mime-data/ > B) I need to convince the desktop to open application/x-meson files > using my program freedesktop.org Desktop Entry Specification http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ > I'm mostly focused on A, since B seems to be pretty well documented > (.desktop files seem to be the key), and I have to get A done before I > can start to think about getting B right. A simple example for what you want are e.g. in planner or bluefish. Both applications install their own entry to the shared-mime-info database and their own .desktop files. [..] > There is a lot of conflicting documentation about how to put more mime > types into the system, There were (and still are) different systems. But the fd.o spec is already fulfilled by GNOME and ROX and it will be fulfilled by KDE 4 (AFAIK). > but nothing I try seems to have any effect. I > think the system may have cached its conclusion that my .mesonjar files > are ZIPs someplace, but I cannot figure out how to clear/refresh that > cache. (I found documentation of a command called > "update-desktop-database" but there is no such program on my test > system.) This application is necessary to register, that your application can handle the MIME-types specified in the .desktop file. It should be part of desktop-file-utils or similar (which distribution do you use? "Apple Mail" sounds like Mac?). HTH and Regards, Daniel -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
