Re: [Zim-wiki] Ubuntu Dash and Zim txt files
Hi Jaap, Turns out that if I specify the rule for *.txt indeed ubuntu / nautilus get it right, but now several other appplications (based on spec 0.16) think all text files are zim pages :( oh, that's bad news :-/ Could you be a bit more specific about which other applications have issues? If it is a Ubuntu vs. other distributions thing, we could keep the change for Ubuntu as a patch in the Ubuntu package at least? Either way, it seems that the only generally applicable solution is to change the file extension... Cheers, Marcel ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Ubuntu Dash and Zim txt files
Hi Bill and Jaap, The Ubuntu Dash allows the input of search terms to select a file. This can be used to identify a specific Zim page - quite a useful feature. However, as Zim pages are stored as *.txt files, the Dash opens them in the default text editor rather than Zim. This cancels out the usefulness :-). yes, I realized the same a while ago -- it quite limits the usefulness of the Zeitgeist integration as well (which makes recently used Zim pages appear in the dash). Actually zim already does this. We install a rule in the mime type information database that matches the header in zim page files. Unfortunately not all other applications respect this rule and give instead preference to the default rule for the .txt extension. Ubuntu file management being one such case where this rule is ignored. I had a look at this issue a while ago and there did not seem to be an easy solution apart from changing the file extension. I was about to draft a bug report to the xdgmime library (which is ultimately used by GNOME when deciding about the filetype) when I realized that there is actually a problem in zim's mimetype specification: It does not define the *.txt extension as a glob pattern. Looking at the GIO source code the logic behind content type determination is: * Get a list of possible mimetypes for the filename from xdgmime * If none or more than one result is returned, look at the content of the file The problem is that for .txt files, only one result is returned in the first step, as only text/plain defines it as a glob pattern: $ rgrep *.txt /usr/share/mime/packages/*.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml:glob pattern=*.txt/ After adding the same line to /usr/share/mime/packages/zim.xml (and updating the mime database), opening zim pages from the dash works like a charm! Thanks Bill for making me look into this again :) Best, Marcel ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Zim-wiki] mime type of zim notes
Hi all, after letting the code rot for a while, I finally want to finish the Zeitgeist integration plugin for zim[1]. However, the usefulness is currently reduced because the mime type of zim pages is not correctly detected by my system (Ubuntu 11.10) -- did anyone else notice this as well? The file utility works fine, but the Gnome environment (e.g. nautilus) just recognizes the file type as text/plain: $file foo.txt foo.txt: text/x-zim-wiki $ gvfs-info foo.txt | grep content-type standard::content-type: text/plain standard::fast-content-type: text/plain Thanks, Marcel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/610515 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] mime type of zim notes
Hi Michael, thanks for the confirmation. I looked a bit more into the subject and found the reason for the observed behaviour -- in fact, a quite simple reason: For determining the file type, it is recommended (and implemented by xdg-open etc.) to first look at the glob pattern (i.e. normally the file extension) and only then to look at the file content. And as zim notes have the extension .txt, they are recognized as text/plain which registers this extension. I think there are two solutions to this problem: * Register the .txt extension for the text/x-zim-wiki mime type -- this has the small disadvantage that for all .txt files, a time-costly (relatively speaking) content lookup has to be performed * Use a different extension for zim notes (e.g. Tomboy uses .note) Any thoughts on this? Cheers, Marcel ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.52
Hi nomnex, The next big step up would be table implementation. I was looking if the bug report status had changed, but they've been some change on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~zim-wiki/+reportedbugs There are currently no open bugs. The correct name for the launchpad project is zim not zim-wiki, bugs are here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim You can find the bug report for table support here, apparently it did not change recently: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/208589 Best, Marcel ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Minimum Gtk version to support in zim
Hi Jaap, I see following available: Ubuntu: 2.22 (maverick), 2.12 (Lucid - LST) Are you sure about Lucid? The version of libgtk-2.0-0 in Lucid seems to be 2.20, python-gtk2 is 2.17. The same holds for Debian stable and testing. Best, Marcel PS: I'm on Maverick and Natty, so no problems here :) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Minimum Gtk version to support in zim
But I think zim should support debian old-stables release at least for some month. Squeeze is now stable for two month and not every admin starts updating directly. I think this is all not about supporting a release (i.e. providing bug fixes) but about whether *new* versions of zim ( 0.5) will work with outdated distributions. Out of curiosity: Are you using zim's most recent release or are you using an older version on your work PC that is running Jaunty? As a side note: I'd really suggest your employer to update your outdated Ubuntu version. Jaunty reached end of life last October, i.e. since then you did not receive any updates, no security fixes etc. If updating every 6 month is not an option, stay with an LTS release. Best Marcel ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Main branch rename
Hi Fabian, I had the same issue with my branch, the problem is known in Launchpad[1]. To fix it, you not only have to fix branch.conf as you already guessed, but also trigger a re-reading of the file. This can be done with a simple python script that you can find in the bug report. To access the file branch.conf, you can use sftp, e.g. sftp f...@bazaar.launchpad.net:~fmos/zim/features/.bzr/branch sftp get branch.conf [edit the branch.conf file] sftp put branch.conf Cheers, Marcel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/377519 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
