Re: Adding actions and default bindings to the file manager

[James LewisMoss <dres ioa com>]

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:23:01 -0600, Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> said:

 Miguel> 2. Mapping a filename to a MIME type
 Miguel> ------------------------------------

 Miguel> To make the GNOME desktop aware of a new MIME type it is
 Miguel> necessary to install a file with the extension .mime in the
 Miguel> $gnome/share/mime-info directory or from the
 Miguel> ~/.gnome/mime-info directory.

 Miguel> The format is the following:

 Miguel> mime-type-name
 Miguel> 	ext[,priority]: ext1 ext2 ext3 ext[,priority]: ext4
 Miguel> 	regex[,priority]: regex1 regex[,priority]: regex2

How about a "file-start[,priority]: <pattern>" option as well (like
what the file command does).  It's more heavyweight than ext or file
name regex, but it's more accurate in many circumstances and it can
deal with things like binaries where the above couldn't (elf binary
browser couldn't be written to use mime types for example.  No way to
specify a pattern).

Dres
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