Could something could be added to the .desktop standard which provides this form of functionality? I can see it being useful for other projects as well--for instance, subversion clients can use it to determine whether or not the directory contains a repository or working copy.

A related KDE Bug report I filed:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124711

On 5/2/06, Thiago Macieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
>What I'm trying to do is 1) set some kind of flag for some directories
>and then 2) tell the file browser my application can open those
>directories. Since I now see that this can not be done with any of the
>xdg specs I will go for the "project file" solution. I'll put a file in
>each of those directories with a newly defined mimetype for my
>application. Probably those "project files" will look a lot like
>.desktop files.

I don't think any file browser supports that. You cannot set the MIME type
for a directory.

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