Re: Removing the "open this file with ... ?" box

Christophe Fergeau wrote:

> Le dimanche 21 novembre 2004 à 08:38 +0100, Paul Dwerryhouse a écrit :
> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:15:08PM +0100, Michael Mauch wrote:
> > > I'm afraid I don't have an answer, but a question: where did you set up
> > > your MIME types? In Nautilus?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, yes. Somone has seen fit to remove the application that
> > lets you change MIME type associations, God only knows why.
> > 
> 
> Mime type handling in GNOME was really old and pretty crappy, it needed
> to be rewritten. So it was rewritten fro gnome 2.8, but noone stepped up
> to rewrite the old mime editor...

No problem with me, I can use a text editor if I know what to edit.

> > If I have the time, I'm going to figure out how the MIME types work now,
> > and write an app to set them manually.
> 
> The thread titled "Proposal for a MIME mapping spec" on the
> [email protected] mailing list started on 07 July 2004 might be
> helpful...

Thanks - the first post
<http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-July/004140.html> told enough
to convince Galeon to offer realplay for Real* files as well.

I mixed /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop and
/usr/share/applications/realplay.desktop and created a new
/usr/local/share/applications/realplay.desktop from it (I didn't find
where I could put that file in my home directory). Then I ran
update-desktop-database and Galeon immediately started to offer realplay
for the Real* files - no restart necessary, no gnome-settings-daemon
necessary. Here's the new realplay.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.2
Name=Real Player
Type=Application
Comment=Real Player 10 (GOLD)
Exec=realplay
Path=
Icon=realplay.png
Categories=Application;AudioVideo;
Terminal=false
DocPath=
MimeType=application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;image/vnd.rn-realpix;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;

Regards...
		Michael


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