>>> On 8/19/2010 at 05:24 PM, in message <[email protected]>, >>> "Rony G. Flatscher" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all very much for your kind help! > > Just stumbled over "xdg-open" which is available on the newer Linux > systems (part of the xdg-utils). > > ---rony >
By the way, you can register new mime types for XDG, and it will be picked up by both Gnome and KDE. I think it would be quite useful for ooRexx under Linux. The spec is available here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html To do this, you just need to create a file at the proper place (in this case, /usr/share/mime/packages/oorexx.xml) with the following contents: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info";> <mime-type type="text/x-rexx"> <comment>OO Rexx</comment> <glob pattern="*.cls;*.rex;*.rexx"/> </mime-type> <mime-type type="text/x-rexx"> <comment>OO Rexx</comment> <glob pattern="*.cls;*.rex;*.rexx"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> Then run the following command (as root): update-mime-database /usr/share/mime REXX scripts should now be visible with the proper mime-type, and can be associated with programs. Anyway, sorry for hijacking this thread, but what IS the official mime-type for REXX files? I've assumed "text/x-rexx" following the example of other widely used languages present in the current mime database shipped with most distros, but this mime-type is not currently registered with IANA. Shouldn't this mime-type be registered, and the package updated to contain these definitions? The mime-type can be registered at: http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
