On Fr, 2005-11-25 at 11:15 -0700, paul.wu wrote: > Many application need add associations to a certain file after it is > installed. Before Gnome2.8, I can approach it by creating 2 files, > *.keys and *.mime, in ~/.local/share/mime-info/. You are not meant to do this, it's entirely up to the application developers. When applications are broken, file bug reports. I was for instance successfull with getting them into Audacity, and there is other popular software around that still doesn't install them. The discussions on the audacity-devel mailing list are still available in online archives [1]. > Now it is an unhappy trip to create an association in GNOME I disagree here :). > I create an association to this mime-type.It seems need to modify several > files,~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list,~/.local/share/applications/[application_name].desktop, > ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. You modify cache files? This is a very bad idea. I'm really curious what application is the culprit, so that we can fix it. [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12412692 -- Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part