I'd like to help out with this packaging effort if possible; specifically toward integration with the XDG desktop for ease of use. When it's finished, a blorb file should have a thumbnail of the included cover art, and double clicking it should open it in gargoyle. This would require integrating the Babel <http://babel.ifarchive.org/> program, either included or as another package; and writing a small wrapper script that GNOME can call when it needs to make a thumbnail.
Here are some preliminary files to this effect (obviously the other formats that gargoyle can open will need to be added): ## Mime info cat ~/.local/share/mime/packages/gargoyle.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info";> <mime-type type="application/x-blorb"> <comment>Blorb Interactive Fiction</comment> <glob pattern="*.blorb"/> <glob pattern="*.blb"/> <glob pattern="*.gblorb"/> <glob pattern="*.glb"/> <glob pattern="*.zblorb"/> <glob pattern="*.zlb"/> </mime-type> <mime-type type="application/x-zmachine"> <comment>Z-machine game data</comment> <glob pattern="*.z1"/> <glob pattern="*.z2"/> <glob pattern="*.z3"/> <glob pattern="*.z4"/> <glob pattern="*.z5"/> <glob pattern="*.z6"/> <glob pattern="*.z7"/> <glob pattern="*.z8"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> ## Launcher cat ~/.local/share/applications/gargoyle.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Gargoyle Comment=An interactive fiction player Exec=gargoyle %f Icon=accessories-dictionary NoDisplay=true MimeType=application/x-blorb;application/x-zmachine; ...and a really dumb script (to install in gconf:/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/applicat...@x-blorb/command): ## Thumbnailer #!/usr/bin/ruby size,file,target = ARGV output = `babel -cover #{file} -to /tmp` case output when /^Extracted/ cover = "/tmp/" + output.split[1] `convert -resize #{size}x#{size} #{cover} #{target}` `rm -f #{cover}` else exit! 1 end -- [needs-packaging] please package gargoyle interactive fiction reader https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301455 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
