Dear Mime Type Gurus

[edscott wilson garcia]

El mié, 14-04-2004 a las 08:54, Andy Choens escribió:
> I need your help.  I'm in the process of trying to really tweak xffm,
> and I'm struggling.  So, I thought I would write you this little letter.
> 
> For starters, I like it when my xffm uses the correct icon for the
> correct file type.  Any OOo file, like foo.sxw shows as a plain file,
> not as a staroffice file.  This concernned me, so I dug around and
> found:  "/usr/share/xffm/pixmaps/gnome/mime.xml".  I assumed there was a
> problem with the mime typing.  I was wrong.  Here is an example:
> 
> <mime id="xf_vnd.sun.xml.writer"
> icon="gnome-application-vnd.sun.xml.writer.png"/>
> 
> I checked for spelling and I checked for the existence of the file being
> referenced.  Both check out.  So, I ask you.  Why, oh why does my
> foo.sxw have this dull white paper-looking icon and not something to do
> with swriter?

Because the mime stuff was just a bit broken in the 4.0.x branch. All
this has changed in the 4.1 (CVS HEAD). With 4.1 I have .sxw files and
icons are correct according to gnome theme. Unfortunately the change in
mime stuff for 4.1 involved a switch to freedesktop mime and adding I
don't know what feature or translation. Since features/translations
cannot be added to 4.0.x, the correct behaviour has not been backported.
But in view of the repeated comments on the subject, I am tempted to go
ahead with the backport anyway, although it would be for 4.0.6 since
4.0.5 has already been frozen by Olivier. 
> 
> But, my troubles don't end there.  I also struggle assigning the correct
> application to the correct file-type.  So, I found,
> "~/.xfce4/xffm/applications.xml".  I thought this might be the answer to
> all my problems.  My problem is pretty simple.  Thanks to:
> 
> <extension id=".tar.gz" application="file-roller"/>
> 
> the file myfoo.tar.gz will open with file-roller.  But, if I have
> myfoo.1.0.1.tar.gz, it craps out and doesn't know what to do with it,
> unless I prod it to use file-roller.  Now, I am perfectly capable of
> telling xffm to use file-roller, but I'm a lazy sod and don't want to
> work anymore than necessary.  I tried to stick a "*" into the xml file,
> with no success.  Is something like a wild-card possible, and if so,
> what does it look like?

Same as above. Fixed in 4.1: just using .tar.gz association works, since
it will try .1.0.1.tar.gz, .0.1.tar.gz, .1.tar.gz and .tar.gz until it
gets a hit (with .tar.gz). Not yet backported to <= 4.0.5.

Edscott


> 
> Thanks in advance
> --andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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