Linux & application metadata

[Chipp Walters]

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: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Monte
> Goulding
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:57 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> 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
>
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