> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:21 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Just wondering the what, where and how of application metadata on > > Linux. > > Specifically I'm interested in file associations but I'm sure other > > stuff > > would come in handy. I know UNIX systems usually look into the file to > > see > > which app it's associated with but this just doesn't seem logical for a > > modern operating system with a desktop etc. > > You are referring to the "magic number" I guess? The OS can use the > magic number to distinguish from a binary executable and a shell > script- but it's not too very useful beyond that. > > AFAIK there is no standard UNIX way of binding files to applications- > this would be handled at the level of the "Window Manager", and there > are literally dozens of competing Window Managers for UNIX. The most > popular Linux and BSD ones being KDE and Gnome. > > KDE does it with MIME types- other Window Managers probably also use > MIME types as well, but there is no standard file location or format > that I know of for this stuff.
I had a feeling it has something to do with MIME types. Ouch... just found this: http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.2/mimetypes-9.html But wait! ... http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info-spec/ looks better. Now where do these .desktop files go? Now I see why I've never released any of my apps on Linux. Cheers MOnte _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
