Dear Mime Type Gurus

[Jean-François Wauthy]

It's fairly stable, i use it everyday. The only risk IHO is that the CVS
version could be borked at the time you fetch it and it won't work
correctly...

Le mer 14/04/2004 à 17:37, Andy Choens a écrit :
> Well, then at the risk of asking a dumb question...how stable is
> 4.1.x?  If this is a fairly "stable" development tree, I might try to
> go and upgrade.  But, if  this is "normal" development tree I might
> not want to do this, since this computer is my main desktop.
> 
> Either way, xfce is going in the right directions.
> 
> --andy
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 10:17, edscott wilson garcia wrote: 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Om Mani Padme Hume
> > >         --Traditional Tibetan Blessing
> > > 
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> 
> Om Mani Padme Hume
> 
>         --Traditional Tibetan Blessing
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Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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