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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Monte
Goulding
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:57 PM
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Subject: RE: Linux application metadata
I had a feeling it has something to do with MIME types. Ouch...
just found
Monte Goulding wrote:
AFAIK there is no standard UNIX way of binding files to applications-
this would be handled at the level of the Window Manager, and there
are literally dozens of competing Window Managers for UNIX. The most
popular Linux and BSD ones being KDE and Gnome.
KDE does it
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Worse, it appears each of the window managers has a different scheme
for
doing this, and I've seen no indication that it's occured to any of
them to
standardize. :(
But the freedesktop.org site indicates there is some effort to
Alex Rice wrote:
For what Window manager though? You have to pick one window manager,
e.g. KDE - K Desktop Environment, and figure out how to do it for that
window manager. There is not, and probably never will be, one way for
all Linux machines. Because who knows what Window Manager the user
I had a feeling it has something to do with MIME types. Ouch...
just found
this: http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.2/mimetypes-9.html
But wait! ...
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info-spec/
looks better. Now where do these .desktop files go?
Now I see why
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:21 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
Just wondering the what, where and how of application metadata on
Linux.
Specifically I'm interested in file associations but I'm sure other
stuff
would come in handy. I know UNIX systems usually look into the file to
Hi All
Just wondering the what, where and how of application metadata on Linux.
Specifically I'm interested in file associations but I'm sure other stuff
would come in handy. I know UNIX systems usually look into the file to see
which app it's associated with but this just doesn't seem logical
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:21 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
Just wondering the what, where and how of application metadata on
Linux.
Specifically I'm interested in file associations but I'm sure other
stuff
would come in handy. I know UNIX systems usually look into the file to
see
