On Sun, 8 Mar 2015, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 05:19:02PM -0700, Jon Trulson wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Isaac Dunham wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to add a bunch of new filetypes.
>>> Should I add them to datatypes.dt, or would using a new file be preferable?
>>>
>>> (I'd like to work on better CDE integration for a few external programs
>>> such as ida, but that entails CDE recognizing the file formats. Including
>>> the magic to recognize PNG files in a config file for an image viewer seems
>>> rather lame.)
>>>
>>
>> I think doing it in types/datatypes.dt.src should be ok... Not sure
>> what, if anything, would need to be done regarding NLS though.
>> -jon
>
> I've started working on it out-of-tree.
> Apparently, the NLS stuff is in programs/localized/$LOCALE/types/*.dt.tmsg
> (mostly _common.dt.tmsg, but also some databases that are per-file).
>
> Looking at things again, it rather seems like miscImages.dt should be
> installed in CDE_INSTALLATION_TOP/appconfig/LOCALE/type/; the extra image
> formats could go in datatypes.dt or miscImages.dt.
>
miscImages.dt.src would seem to be better option.
> Most of this seems to be just shy of copy-pasteable; basically the main
> change between image formats is the string describing the name,
> which usually isn't translated.
>
Sounds fine to me.
--
Jon Trulson
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