> > 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. > > There's plenty of info on how to manually enter MIME info, but I'll be > darned if I'm going to ask my end-users to do something that silly. > > Worse, it appears each of the window managers has a different scheme for > doing this, and I've seen no indication that it's occured to any > of them to > standardize. :(
The freedesktop.org site seems to be working towards that. I was wondering if this stuff was included in any of the package systems? > > I hope I'm wrong. > > I have some things to deploy to Linux and just finding this basic info has > eaten more time than something this trivial deserves. Once I > find the magic > recipe for file associations, icon assignments, and putting an > alias in the > Start menu, I'll post a summary of instructions at my Rev page. Sounds great. Maybe we should put together a script library for all this stuff when we work it out? I'll certaily let youknow if I find anything. Maybe Chipp can get his mate at Lindows to ask one of the developers there??? Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
