Hi Christopher, the desktop managers or whatever are free to choose from the applications that offer a particular mimetype. There is no "standardized" OpenWith mechanism. Thus it's quite random what app(s) from the available ones get opened.
This is a shortcoming of the standard. I don't see a way to escape it except of generally offering an OpenWith dialog. Hope this helps. Stefan On 4/1/16, Christopher Hoskin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am interested in detecting when an SD card used in a camcorder is > connected to a computer. There appears to be a convention (possibly a > standard, but I don't have a reference?) that camcorders recording to the > AVCHD format structure their file layout as shown here: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AVCHD_actual_file_structure.jpg > > Currently this results in a Camcorder SD card being identified as > 'x-content/image-dcf', which typically leads to the desktop environment > automatically opening a photo editing application, rather than a video > editing application. > > As a first draft, the entry might look something like this: > > <mime-type type="x-content/camcorder-avchd"> > <_comment>AVCHD Camcorder SD Card</_comment> > <treemagic> > <treematch path="PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM" type="directory" > non-empty="true"/> > </treemagic> > </mime-type> > > I am not an expert in this area, so this may need some refinement. > > I would be interested to know your thoughts on whether it would be > appropriate to introduce such a MIME type? > > Thanks for your time. > > Christopher Hoskin > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
