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

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 21:19 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:07:26PM -0500, Adam Hooper ([email protected]) wrote:
> > 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 run WindowMaker, and find when running Nautilus:
> 
>   - I get a desktop filled with icons, etc.
>   - My keybindings are trashed.
>   - Other random breakage, depending on the level of cerebral-fecal
>     impaction of the GNOME team this week.

Even with the --no-desktop option? If so, the first item on your list is
a bug. To fix your keybindings again, I'm guessing you can run "killall
gnome-settings-daemon". And I'm sure the random breakage is also caused
by either bugs or complications which are easy to work around.

Obviously it's not going to be trivial to run GNOME apps outside of
GNOME. It's still easier than running Windows apps outside of Windows or
Mac OS apps outside of Mac OS.

> > > 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?
> 
> /etc/mime.types

Yes, but how do you associate preferred programs for those MIME types?
(That's what the topic of the post was....)

Oh, never mind, found it -- /etc/mailcap.

-- 
Adam Hooper <[email protected]>

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