Hey guys, Lindows uses KDE which handles the MIME types. I'll do some research and get back to you. I'm thinking when the app first starts, it can write to a MIME file stored somewhere on the hard disk, but this is just a guess.
I'll let you know more about it when I get there. best, Chipp > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Monte > Goulding > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Linux & application metadata > > > > > > 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 I've never released any of my apps on Linux. > > > > There's plenty of info on how to manually enter MIME info, but I'll be > > darned if I'm going to ask my end-users to do something that silly. > > > > 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. :( > > The freedesktop.org site seems to be working towards that. I was wondering > if this stuff was included in any of the package systems? > > > > I hope I'm wrong. > > > > I have some things to deploy to Linux and just finding this > basic info has > > eaten more time than something this trivial deserves. Once I > > find the magic > > recipe for file associations, icon assignments, and putting an > > alias in the > > Start menu, I'll post a summary of instructions at my Rev page. > > Sounds great. Maybe we should put together a script library for all this > stuff when we work it out? I'll certaily let youknow if I find anything. > > Maybe Chipp can get his mate at Lindows to ask one of the developers > there??? > > Cheers > > Monte > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
