On Friday 02 March 2001 13:24, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:58:30 +0100 EagleIce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I'm after
> > is just that I'm wondering why my .lyx files use all kinds of different
> > icons, most of them use the C++ icon, many use the textfile icon,
> > sometimes they use the icon for executable files, and now a couple of
> > them use the .java icon belonging to the JBuilder program.
> > All of this is in SuSE Linux 7.0
> > At work i use Klyx in Caldera Open Linux 2.4, the .lyx files appear there
> > with the executable and the text icons.
> > This is not a problem for me, not at all, I just think that it's a bit
> > weird so I wonder why this is. Is it the .lyx file-ending that confuses
> > the system or is it something in the file itself that makes the system
> > choose different kinds of icons?
>
> I suppose you use KDE (1/2). My second suggestion is that you did not
> define a lyx mime-type, so the type is guessed by KDE. In KDE 1 you can go
> to kfm's edit menu and choose MIME-types to create a new file (e.g.
> /text/x-lyx.kdelnk) as a LyX file descriptor, there you could also set LyX
> as default program to open the file. In KDE 2 mime-types is a subtopic in
> the KDE control center (the menu-point in konqueror can just edit the
> current file type but not create a new one)
>
> Question to the experts:
> Is there a "standard" MIME type for LyX files? (I choose /text/x-lyx as it
> resembles /text/x-tex for TeX files.
>
> Guenter
>
Fine, this is interesting, thank you!
Cheers,
ei
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