On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:01:44 +0300 Kustaa Nyholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi List, > > new here, so excuse me if this is wrong place to ask this question. > > I've tried to do my home work, spent some ten hours in the web but I > still do not know the answer. > > How do I do file/mime/application associations in the freedesktop.org > style? > > I understand that I create a myapp.xml file in /usr/bin/mime/packages > and then run update-mime-database. The file to mimetype association is handled by the package shared-mime-info [1]. Put a file in DATADIR/mime/ and update the database to have it registered. Or perhaps send a patch so it can be included in shared-mime-info. For application to mime association just put a ';' separated list of mimetypes in the MimeType [2] entry of the .desktop file for your application. > But as far as I understand this only associates, in practical terms, > my mime type, a description of the type and file extension together, > no icon. The icon for a mimetype is expected to be in DATADIR/icons/THEME/*/mimetypes. In other words, the icon used depends on the current theme [3]. If you want to install a default icon for your own mimetype it might be sensible to put it in the hicolor (default) theme. Note that your application icon also can be themed if you put it in DATADIR/icons/hicolor/*/apps, which is probably what you want. > I then create a myapp.desktop file and run update-desktop-database > which associates my mime type, executable and icon and a description > of the application. > > Now the part I don't understand: > > The icon in the .desktop file, is that an icon for the application or > the document (mime typed) file? Or both? It is the icon of the application. There is no direct link between application and mimetypes, these are treated like two independent things. One application can support any number of mimetypes and one mimetype can be supported be any number of applications. Many mimetypes are not handled by any installed application, but the are still recognized as expected. > How can I get a separate icon for the application and document? What > if my application supports several document (mime) types? That isn't a problem, see above. > I figured this could be be done with a .desktop file with the > Type=Mimetype and Patterns=*.ext but these are deprecated? Yes, those are deprecated. Use MimeType instead. See above. > I've read the icon naming spec and icon theme spec but I just don't > get it. [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo_2dspec [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.5.html#mime-types [3] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2ficon_2dtheme_2dspec _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
