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Re: Finding installed applications



On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 14:54:22 -0400, muppet wrote:
> 
> Torsten Schoenfeld said:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 00:06 -0400, muppet wrote:
> >
> >> It appears that gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_application() is not bound
> >> in Gnome2::VFS.
> >
> > It is, and you use it below. :-)
> 
> There's gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_application(), which didn't work, and
> gnome_vfs_mime_type_get_default_application(), which did, unless the former is
> bound in perl as the latter.
> 
> 
> >> Everything works up until get_default_application, which returns
> >> undef.  :-/
> >
> > Well, works for me (after changing foo.txt to something that exists):
> 
> My system must hate me.

... unlike windows, where the detection is purely extension-based, Gnome
is supposed to look at magic numbers too. So for files, they must be
opened to find their mime-type. Files that don't exist don't have
mime-types (or get some useless default like application/octet-stream).

(I'd assume it relies on header for network resources).

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