I've created a PyGi 'screenwriting/comic book scriptwriting' application
that creates documents with the extension ".story". I want make it
installable on Lubuntu specifically.
(I will briefly tell you how I've installed my app in that really is the
issue.)
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HOW I INSTALLED MY APP
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(1) PyGi Modules
I have copied my PyGi application folder to /opt/
I have a bash script in /usr/bin that lauches the script and sends a
filePath (a story document) as the first arguement:
python /opt/Story/modules/story.py $1
(2) Desktop Entry
I copy a Deskop Entry file with these contents to /usr/share/applications/:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=story %f
Icon=story
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Office;WordProcessor;GNOME;GTK;X-Red-Hat-Base;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=application/x-story
Name=Story
GenericName=Scriptwriter
Comment=Compose, edit, and view scripts
(3) Application Icon
I copy my icon to /usr/share/icons
cp story.png /usr/share/icons
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At this point I can see my desktop shortcut with it's icon. When I click
on it, my application launches fine. On the command line, if I type:
story myScreenplayDocument.story
...it does open the document fine.
Now, what I am looking are commands that I can put in an 'insallation
script' that will create two things: (1) I want a double click on a
pcmanfm icon that represent a ".story" file and launch the 'story' app.
(2) I want all files with extension ".story" to have the icon of my
choice. I've found these steps online to follow, but they don't work.
Where am I going wrong?
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ADD MIME TYPE, FIRST TRY
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(1) I open mime.types:
gksudo leafpad /etc/mime.types
(2) Copy the following text at the end of the file:
text/story story
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I save mime.types and close leafpad. I then double click a ".story" file.
leafpad opens it, not "story" app. I'm assuming the above step was
supposed to take care of that. So, I try a second method:
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ADD MIME TYPE, SECOND TRY
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(1) I create the following xml with these contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info";>
<mime-type type="application/x-story">
<comment>Example file type </comment>
<magic priority="50">
<match value="search-string" type="string" offset="10:140"/>
</magic>
<glob pattern="*.story"/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>
(2) I save it at this path:
/usr/share/mime/application/story.xml
(3) I run this command:
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
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No errors with command in step (3) above. I try to open a ".story"
document. leafpad is launched instead of 'story' app.
I log out and back in. Still, leafpad opens it.
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ADD ICON
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(1) I create a simple black star with Inkscape, set it's width and height
to the star object, then export as svg with this name:
text-x-story.svg
(2) I run the following two commands:
sudo cp text-x-story.svg /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0
I get this output:
gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0: Cache file created successfully.
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I log out and back in. The Story Icon does not show up for the ".story"
extension document in pcmanfm.
What the heck is going on?
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