Re: Mime-type detection and GLabels application

[René Seindal <rene seindal dk>]

Hi,

I did manage to solve the problem in the meantime.  I have made a file 
/usr/share/mime/packages/glabels.xml as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info";>
    <mime-type type="application/x-glabels">
        <comment xml:lang="en">Glabels document</comment>
        <glob pattern="*.glabels" />
  </mime-type>
</mime-info>

after which I ran "update-mime-database /usr/share/mime" as root.

After restarting nautilus the mime type worked as expected.

The problem here is that I needed to be root to do it, which is at least 
sub-optimal.

I'm not quite sure if I need to file a bug report on nautilus, 
gnome-vfs, glabels or freedesktop's shared-mime-info.

René

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 11:20, René Seindal wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > I use the glabels application to print out adressing labels, but after I 
> >  upgraded to Gnome 2.6, I can no longer launch glabels by clicking on a 
> > .glabels file.  It is being classified as a application/x-gzip file and 
> > I'm only offered file-roller as a possible application.
> >
> > I have .glabels file registered as application/x-glabels in "File Types 
> > and Programs", with the glabels application as default, but it is 
> > apparently being ignored.
> >
> > How do I persuade nautilus to launch the application of my choice on 
> > these files?
>
>
> Hmm, this is due to the change in the mime type system to the new
> freedesktop.org system. Unfortunately the file types and programs app
> creates the old-style mime types. We're working on fixing this.
>
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