Dear all, I have investigated a bit about how to associate a file type, for instance a multiple alignment in Clustal W format, and an application, for instance SeaView.
After discussions on -mentor and -devel, I wrote a small summary on the Debian wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport Based on this, I commited a serie of patches for TreeView X, NJplot, SeaView and Perlprimer, in order to associate them to files they can open. This is not exhaustive, and I intend to keep a track of what is done on the following page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedMIME Here are the relevant commits: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2008-January/001121.html (SeaView) http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2008-January/001115.html (NJplot) http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2008-January/001112.html (Perlprimer) http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2007-December/000988.html (TreeView X) The effect of the changes is that one should be able to double-click, or at least to select the correct program by right-clicking on a tree, aligment or perlprimer file in desktop managers complying with the FreeDesktop standards. I would appreciate feedback on this work. After concertation with upstream authors, if we have positive comments I can try to submit these associations to more central ressources, so that we do not have to micro-manage them and other distros can benefit this work. All the packages I modified have in also a multitude of small changes, and I checked today that they are ready for upload. Can somebody sponsor them? For NJplot it is also a new upstream release, and for TreeView X it would close a bug. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
