Re: [gnome-love] GNOME and default application for python scripts

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:37:07PM +0200, Ali Sabil wrote:
> > Magnus Therning wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:08:53PM +0200, Frederic Ruaudel wrote:
> > >  
> > > > I think this is because it is set at the system level so it can't be
> > > > changed throught nautilus.
> > > >
> > > > The solution is probably to edit as root the desktop file of gajim :
> > > >
> > > > /usr/share/applications/gajim.desktop (or something equivalent)
> > > >
> > > > and remove the mimetype of the python files in the "MimeType" entry.
> > > > Then you probably have to restart something (X session, computer ??)
> > > >    
> > > The only MIME type related line in its .desktop file is
> > >
> > > MimeType=application/x-executable
> > >
> > > So I can't really see how gajim would end up being registered for python
> > > files...
> > >
> > > I'm thinking this might be something Debian specific. I'll send off a
> > > mail to the Debian mailing list for GTK/GNOME to see what they say.
> > >
> > > /M
> > >
> > >  
> > I have this exact same behavior with a gentoo box, running gnome-2.12.3
>
> Oh? Interesting.
>
> I sent an email to the Debian GTK/GNOME list to see if anyone there
> knows what's going on.
>
> This is the only GNOME list I'm on, though I've been looking for an
> excuse to get on gnome-list :-)
>
> /M

Please see the following:

http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/mimetypes-0.html

This explains the MIME type system and should help you get to the root
of the problem.  You can use the program gnomevfs-info to figure out 
what mime type python scripts are resolving to.

I'm getting MIME text/x-python here, and this is defined in the 
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml file.

  <mime-type type="text/x-python">
    <sub-class-of type='application/x-executable'/>
    <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>

There might not be a desktop file associated with the MIME-type 
text/x-python, so nautilus is falling back to the subtype 
application/x-executable and it finds that gajim is registered as the 
handler for this MIME type.  Just a guess.

Hope this helps,


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