Re: Finding installed applications

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 00:06 -0400, muppet wrote:

> It appears that gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_application() is not bound  
> in Gnome2::VFS.

It is, and you use it below. :-)

> I expect this to work, but it doesn't:
>
>    use strict;
>    use Gnome2::VFS -init;
>    my $uri = "file://$ENV{HOME}/foo.txt";
>    my $mime_type_str = Gnome2::VFS->get_mime_type ($uri);
>    my $mime_type = Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Type->new ($mime_type_str);
>    my $application = $mime_type->get_default_application;
>    print "application => $application\n";
>
> Everything works up until get_default_application, which returns  
> undef.  :-/

Well, works for me (after changing foo.txt to something that exists):

  application => Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application=HASH(0x8144d88)

$application->launch(@uris) would launch the app.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten