Could something could be added to the .desktop standard which provides this form of functionality? I can see it being useful for other projects as well--for instance, subversion clients can use it to determine whether or not the directory contains a repository or working copy.
<br><br>A related KDE Bug report I filed:<br><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124711">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124711</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Thiago Macieira</b> <<a href="mailto:thiago@kde.org">thiago@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jaap Karssenberg wrote:<br>>What I'm trying to do is 1) set some kind of flag for some directories<br>>and then 2) tell the file browser my application can open those<br>>directories. Since I now see that this can not be done with any of the
<br>>xdg specs I will go for the "project file" solution. I'll put a file in<br>>each of those directories with a newly defined mimetype for my<br>>application. Probably those "project files" will look a lot like
<br>>.desktop files.<br><br>I don't think any file browser supports that. You cannot set the MIME type<br>for a directory.<br><br>--<br>Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) <a href="http://macieira.info">macieira.info</a> - thiago (AT)
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