Hi try to play with ROX-Filer and you'll be done in some way.AppDir handle your problem better than actual any directory mimetype implementation.
2008/5/13, Guillaume Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello! > > I am working on port to linux of a medical imaging application and I > have a mime type problem. > > The application generates movies stored as a lot of files and meta-data > in a directory. The whole movie is the directory (with all it's files) > and has the .mkt extention. > > I would like to be able to display on nautilus, or an other file > browser, a thumbnail instead of the folder icon when displaying the > parent directory. > I wrote a simple thumbnailer that takes 2 parameters: input and output > file and create an image based on the directory content. > I have 2 problems: > 1 - Retrieving the correct mime type for the directory (it should be > "application/mkt-bundle" ). > 2 - Telling some file explorer application to generate the thumbnail. > > What I did: > In ~/.local/share/mime/packages/mkt-mimetype.xml > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <mime-info > xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> > <mime-type type="application/mkt-bundle"> > <sub-class-of type="inode/directory" /> > <glob pattern="*.mkt" /> > <comment>Mkt bundle movie</comment> > </mime-type> > > </mime-info> > > and did a update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime > > I wrote a simple program to display the mime type of a file using the > gio library. > testing a file named "file.mkt" provides the application/mkt-bundle > type. > Testing a directory "dir.mkt" provide also the same type. > > I would like only the directory to provide this type. How can I achieve > this ? > > Does anybody knows if there is a file browser that will handle this > properly and will allow me ty configure my thumbnailer ? > > Thank you for your time. > > Yours, > Guillaume. > > -- --- Luca Cappelletti Infodomestic.com "...Together we stand, divided we fall." .O. ..O OOO http://developer.infodomestic.com GTalk,MSN: luca <dot> cappelletti <at> gmail <dot> com Jabber: luca <dot> cappelletti <at> jabber <dot> org Skype: luca <dot> cappelletti Linux Registered User: #223411 Ubuntu Registered User: #7221 http://www.advogato.org/person/mutek/ http://persone.softwarelibero.org/person/mutek https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucaCappelletti/ "l'intelligenza è utile per la sopravvivenza se ci permette di estinguere una cattiva idea prima che la cattiva idea estingua noi" "La chiave di ogni uomo è il suo pensiero. Benché egli possa apparire saldo e autonomo, ha un criterio cui obbedisce, che è l'idea in base alla quale classifica tutte le cose. Può essere cambiato solo mostrandogli una nuova idea che sovrasti la sua" "Uno studioso è soltanto un modo in cui una biblioteca crea un'altra biblioteca " _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
