smart and desktop environment specific MIME defaults

[Keith Poole]

Nice work

-K

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec at suse.cz> wrote:

> Hallo.
>
> I have been working on an implementation of smart utilities for
> maintenance of MIME defaults in glib (gtk+, GNOME) and
> desktop-file-utils that may make defaults desktop specific.
>
> The implementation is capable:
> - Parse all desktop files and inspect Categories and MimeType keywords.
> - Automatically maintain defaults list for all MIME types using a simple
>  configuration file and simple heuristic.
> - Use different defaults for the same MIME type and the same application
>  started from the different environment (i. e. nautilus in GNOME will
>  use file-roller for ZIP archives, but when started from KDE, it will
>  use ark).
>
> It helps to maintain complete and correct defaults.list and improves
> behavior of systems with more than one desktop environment installed.
>
> The implementation is available here:
> Sources:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30214
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630171
> Binaries (openSUSE, Fedora):
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?package=&project=home%3Asbrabec%3Amime-defaults
> (for glib, just libgio replacement is sufficient)
>
> Note that you have to set environment variable DESKTOP_SESSION in the
> particular session init script. (See the discussion in the bug.)
>
> Comments are welcome.
> --
> Best Regards / S pozdravem,
>
> Stanislav Brabec
> software developer
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