Re: Mime-types ?

[Stef van der Made <svdmade planet nl>]

Dear Darren,

I had serious problems with even attaching programs to a file extension. 
With gnome-2.8 this problem was resolved.

This release is the best I've seen yet.

Stef

Darren Adams wrote:

> > don't know why the problem was there to begin with, though...
> >
> >    
>
> Well, according to the initial MIME mapping proposal
> (http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-July/004140.html - in the
> 'Caching' section), update-desktop-database needs to be run after the
> desktop file is installed. From a GARNOME point of view, I think that
> there's a 'post-install' section in the Makefiles? Perhaps the command
> can be placed there[*]?
>
> - Darren
>
> [*]admittedly, I haven't used GARNOME in a number of months now, so
> correct me if I'm wrong about that section...
>
>