Re: handling of mime-types

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Take a look at the header libgnome/gnome-mime-info.h.  It will tell you
what program should be run for a particular mime type.  You would have to
do a substitution for the file name though.  Take a look at gnumeric's
source code for examples.

James.

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On Tue, 4 May 1999, JP Rosevear wrote:

> gandalf@pobox.com wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Nathan Clegg wrote:
> >
> > > I am writing an application which interprets some mime types.  I want to
> > > use the default and user-defined mime-types and handlers found in the
> > > gnome control center.  I am confused as to the layout of files in the
> >
> > Why not just use one of the mime funcions provide in gnome-libs (from
> > libgnome/gnome-mime.h):
> >
> > const char  *gnome_mime_type                    (const gchar* filename);
> > const char  *gnome_mime_type_or_default         (const gchar *filename,
> >                                                  const gchar *defaultv);
> > const char  *gnome_mime_type_of_file            (const char *existing_filename);
> > const char  *gnome_mime_type_or_default_of_file (const char
> > *existing_filename,
> >                                                  const gchar *defaultv);
> > const char  *gnome_mime_type_from_magic         (const gchar *filename);
> 
> I also was in need of this info.  All this works great (ie. I can get the app and
> the mime-type), but now I want to take the mime associated action.  All I can find
> are the libgnome/gnome-exec commands which seem to require parsing on my part (ie.
> looking for the %f in the command line and replacing it, calling based on whether
> the prog needs to run in a shell).   Is there a function somewhere that will take a
> file name and execute the mime associated app all in one go?
> 
> -JP
> 
> 
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