Summary:
creates SendTo items for .desktop files

Current testing version:
0.1.2

Primary author(s):
Dennis Tomas

Summary:
view or edit extended file attributes

Current stable version:
0.0.3

Home page:
http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/xattr.html

Primary author(s):
Stephen Watson

If you bind archives to commands such as:

tar xzf "$@"

To have the files unpack into the the same directory as the archive either:

1. Use a script like:
   

   cd "`dirname $@`"
   tar xzf "$@"

   
   or
2. Use Archive to to unpack archives.

Using Archive is prefered because it is far more flexible.

This is about offering the user a list of applications which can open a particular file. Ideally, applications should be able to add themselves to this list in a way that can be picked up by all desktops. Also, the user's preferred handler for opening a particular type should affect all applications.
See http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/mime-actions-spec.

How does the filer decide what icon to show for a file, and which program to use to open it?

For each file, the filer starts by working out its MIME-Type, as follows:

• If the file's user.mime_type extended attribute it set, then that is its MIME type.
• If the file's name matches a pattern in one of the globs file (usually, /usr/share/mime/globs) then the line in that file gives the type.
• If the contents of the file match a pattern in one of the magic files (usually, /usr/share/mime/magic) then that gives the type.

Not easily. But see:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=663546&group_id=7023&atid=357023