Well, I'm building a construction which also requires/provides
information about a directory.

for example:

local.dev.cdrom.audio
local.dev.cdrom.blank
local.dev.cdrom.dvd
local.dev.disk.ata.partition

and

local.map.home

remote.net.smb.workgroup
remote.net.smb.server
remote.net.smb.share

I've called them subtypes. Well what's in a name, but I've used the
name type already in the software I'm working on.

Well according to Chris the pattern can be set like:


MimeType="inode/directory;role=remote.net.smb.workgroup"

for a directory which represents a smb workgroup

The only location I think this can be set on a per directory basis is
a .directory file, in this dir

or in the map:

~/.kde/share/apps/dolphin/view_properties/%localpath/.directory


but this is KDE. And not .local/.config.

Stef




2011/2/8 Keith Poole <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> The DVD folder was only an example, and I think there's many applications for 
> this sort of functionality. The reason I'm asking about it is for a project 
> I'm working on that requires something along those lines (FOSS Linux and 
> Unix-like project).
>
> Do you think a magic pattern could be set to determine if it's a matching 
> folder? Doesn't have to be an extension, could be a specific file inside the 
> folder.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On 08/02/2011, at 6:10 PM, Křištof Želechovski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dnia wtorek, 8 lutego 2011 o 01:28:38 Keith Poole napisał(a):
>>> Hi Kristof.
>>>
>>> A good example of what I'm trying to do would be to allow *.DVD folders to 
>>> open in a specified application as opposed to opening in the file browser. 
>>> Of course the user may still want to browse the folder etc, hence my 
>>> subclassing.
>>>
>>> MIME types may not be the way to do this, but I was hoping for a solution 
>>> that was transparent to the file manager as much as possible. The last 
>>> thing I want to do is go patching thunar, konq, nautilus, etc.
>>>
>>
>> Why would you want to change the handler application?  A DVD holds tracks 
>> that hold read-only file systems that can hold any data, and with a special 
>> provision that some file systems within tracks allow you to "borrow" files 
>> stored on previous tracks.  So I guess that would be a set of numbered 
>> tracks that the application would extract content from, wouldn’t it?  I do 
>> not think such an application would be particularly useful, but it is of 
>> course up to you :-)
>>
>> However, have in mind that XDG tools are in a habit of looking *inside* 
>> files to determine what they contain; the file name is only a hint.  And 
>> yes, the file manager should automatically match the view mode to the 
>> perceived content if we want it to work just like Microsoft Windows Explorer 
>> (which is, admit it, quite smart in most cases, although probably not in the 
>> DVD case in particular — not that I can attest in either direction because I 
>> never saw such a directory in my life).
>>
>> IMHO,
>> Chris
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