Linux & application metadata

[Monte Goulding]

> > 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