Re: MIME types, again ("Nautilus" ain't the answer)

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:17 -0700, ben wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me how to change my file associations in Galeon
> 1.3.19 (latest Debian unstable)?  I know that, were I running
> Nautilus, I could right-click on an icon and use "Open with..." etc,
> which sometimes works.  But I'm using the KDE filemanager for no other
> reason than that KDE panel actually works correctly with Autohide
> turned on (yes, even when running Sawfish).

You can run Nautilus from within KDE, can't you? (Not ideal, I know, but
it's easy and it'll work.) If it refuses to open, maybe try with the
--no-desktop option.

> I thought I'd come to terms with the fact that Galeon/Gnome don't use
> mime.types etc, but once again, if you know how things _should_ work
> and are trying to run applications from Gnome, KDE, _and_ real Unix,
> it's just unbelievably frustrating to find that in order to change a
> file association you have to configure 3 different systems.

Freedesktop has a page set up for a unified system:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmime_2dactions_2dspec

Out of curiosity, what's the "real" Unix way of handling file
associations?

> Wouldn't it be possible for Galeon to have a menu item that let you go
> straight to Gnome's "mime.types" system?  It would even be possible to
> only display this menu item if it were determined that KDE was
> running.

Yes, it would be possible. But who's going to write it? As far as I
know, all Galeon developers use GNOME.

-- 
Adam Hooper <[email protected]>

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